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

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

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

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

All the same, it was not a greengrocery business that she carried on, but, on the contrary, a little coal business: she sold coals clandestinely and in small portions to poor folk like herself.

From Norse Tales and Sketches by Kielland, Alexander Lange