Editing Grocery store (section)

{{Short description|Retail store that primarily sells food and other household supplies}}
{{About||a large grocery store|Supermarket|a fruit and vegetable grocery store|Greengrocer}}
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|caption1                 = Grocery store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
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|caption2                 = Delicatessen & Grocery in Metairie, Louisiana
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|caption3                 = Ethnic grocery, West Bloomfield Twp, Michigan
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|caption4                 = Convenience Store in Brockenhurst, United Kingdom
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|caption5                 = Organic grocery in Toronto, Canada
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A '''grocery store''' ([[American English|AE]]), '''grocery shop''' or '''grocer's shop''' ([[British English|BE]]) or simply '''grocery'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://culinarylore.com/food-history:origin-of-grocer/|title=Origin of the Word Grocer|website=culinarylore.com|date=19 March 2013 |access-date=May 12, 2022}}</ref> is a [[retail]] store that primarily retails a general range of food [[Product (business)|products]],<ref name=naics/> which may be [[Fresh food|fresh]] or [[Food preservation|packaged]]. In everyday US usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for [[supermarket]],<ref name=oxford/> and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell '''groceries'''. In the UK, shops that sell food are distinguished as grocers<ref name=oxford/> or grocery shops (though in everyday use, people usually use either the term "supermarket" or a "[[corner shop]]".)

Larger types of stores that sell groceries, such as [[supermarket]]s and [[hypermarket]]s, usually stock significant amounts of non-food products, such as [[clothing]] and [[Household hardware|household items]]. Small grocery stores that sell mainly fruit and vegetables are known as [[greengrocer]]s (Britain) or produce markets (US), and small grocery stores that predominantly sell prepared food, such as candy and snacks, are known as [[convenience shop]]s or [[delicatessen]]s.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}