grocery
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After dropping out of high school at 14, he worked on the local railroad and in his father’s wholesale grocery before co-founding a chapter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
And US grocery prices stood 2.2 percent higher than a year ago in August, underscoring households' compounding costs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Surging grocery costs and $4-a-gallon gas prices where he lives have the 62-year-old mortgage-loan officer cutting back on day-to-day expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
And in Alabama, where one woman has been caring for an old co-worker’s 2-year-old for nearly a year since ICE picked up the baby’s mother while she was on a grocery run.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
The flooded grocery store was a dreary, dismal place.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Shoppers can walk straight into the social supermarket, with no prior booking required, to access a wealth of budget-friendly groceries, including a £1 fruit and vegetable bag.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Another survey, from the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy, found 57 percent placing groceries, gas or utilities among their top three issues.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The funniest comments, she said, are the very specific observations such as, “You look like you could carry the groceries in one trip.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The ability to rise from a chair, steady yourself on uneven ground or carry a bag of groceries may seem ordinary, but it is deeply meaningful.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
When Uhmma caught me throwing a penny, along with old papers, in the trash, she yelled, Do you think the clerk would let me leave with the groceries when I am one penny short?
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
