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supermarket

[soo-per-mahr-kit] / ˈsu pərˌmɑr kɪt /






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Shares of Walmart declined on Thursday after the world’s largest supermarket chain reported disappointing U.S. comparable sales growth, after drug prices were hit by changes to regulations on Medicaid prescribed medication.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

And just like supermarket shoppers, a CEO who walks into the store hungry—staring down a patent cliff with an empty pipeline—is far more prone to expensive, panic-driven mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

"Everything came crashing down. It was terrifying," Cristina Ruiz Lopez, a lab worker who was at a supermarket in Granada when the earthquake hit, wrote on X.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

The supermarket said it had apologised to Arnold and claimed the mistake was "caused by human error", but critics have called for the technology to be scrapped.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

On the outskirts of the city they came to a supermarket.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Mamdani floated the stores on the campaign trail as a part of his affordability agenda, arguing that subsidized supermarkets focused on cheap, healthy foods would help New Yorkers adapt to rapidly rising food costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Before the July 4 holiday, an Agriculture Department official had called executives at some of America’s top supermarkets to lower the prices of beef sold to consumers, the Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

For its first five years Wong sold mochi to restaurants and cinemas before she saved enough money to invest in branding and move into supermarkets.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Many large retailers and supermarkets had already voluntarily stopped selling the devices under a framework agreed in 2023 between fire chiefs and the British Retail Consortium.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

So I put on what I take to be a respectable-looking outfit of ironed Bermuda shorts and scooped-neck T-shirt and set out for a tour of the local hotels and supermarkets.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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