supermarket
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A punk-calypso track follows—“Abominable Snowman in the Market,” a fanciful warning to staid supermarket shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Emma adds to the fun by taking her kids fruit picking and also by letting them choose at the supermarket, then having tasty picnics in the garden.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The six companies, all Italian, were fashion company Harmont & Blaine, supermarket chains Il Gigante, MD, Oasi and Pro7 and bottled gas distributor Butan Gas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Even beyond the supermarket, it was common to use checks at malls, big-box stores or gas stations until the early 2000s, when they were ultimately upstaged by credit and debit cards.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
In the morning, he refused to go out for breakfast, so I went to the supermarket for groceries and brought us both a bag of food from Hardees.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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People already have seen some price impacts from higher energy costs — as well as higher costs for fertilizer, whose inputs also largely come from the Middle East — in supermarkets, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
The report's authors found the single largest driver of the so-called poverty premium was food shopping, with 39% of families forced to rely on local convenience stores instead of larger supermarkets with more competitive pricing.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Just months after a previous major storm, cars queued at petrol stations, while residents thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Rupert Ashby, from the British Frozen Food Federation, said freezers are breaking down or being switched off in supermarkets in the extreme heat because the systems find it hard to deal with the high temperatures.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
She shopped in supermarkets larger than the town she came from.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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