greengrocery

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Our route took us past the tube station where a middle-aged white woman has a greengrocery stall.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2013

He'll lose 2003 Revenues: $1.7 billion Henry Sy runs the Philippines' largest retailer, but he operates his SM Group almost as if it were a family-owned corner greengrocery.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, though it was steady enough, he dreamed of bigger things; once, when a reporter came to interview him at the greengrocery, he puckishly pretended that he was someone else, that "Alber" had moved away.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the greengrocery market, the stalls were overhung with date branches, cinnamon stalks, strings of dried orange peels, gunny-bags of pistachios, fresh pears, pomegranates, and boxes of honeycombs.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

He devoured books, and the printed leaves became as necessary to his existence as the cabbage-leaves to the caterpillars which at times made their not welcome appearance in the abjured greengrocery.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill