What's the difference between drugstore and grocer?

Drugstore


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The average cost per test was 116.4 FF when bought individually in drugstores or pharmacies.
  • (2) Other funding comes from individual donors, member associations affiliated with TPA, chain drugstores, wholesalers, and the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
  • (3) It was also reported this weekend that the US drugstore chain Walgreens is reportedly preparing to take full control of Britain's biggest chemist, Alliance Boots , in a £10.5bn deal.
  • (4) Ben has written a few novels (with excellent fake-real names, like Air Dance), but they weren't exactly to small-town tastes: "Miss Coogan at the drugstore says that [Billy Said Keep Going] is pretty racy," Susan tells Ben early in the book; while another character remembers being perturbed when reading a homosexual rape scene in Conway's Daughter.
  • (5) The supplements were usually self-prescribed and purchased in a drugstore.
  • (6) And it wasn’t until the Baltimore youth burned down the CVS [drugstore] that anyone ever cared.
  • (7) I doubt they’ve made their wives or girlfriends a hot water bottle, or changed her bloody sheets, or volunteered to go down to the drugstore to buy her maxi pads when she’s doubled up in pain and cursing her ovaries.
  • (8) Instead, the administration hoped that the uncertainty created by the threat of political interference might be enough to deter such deals for the time being, as had happened earlier this month when the Walgreens drugstore chain dropped its plan to move its headquarters to Europe as part of its takeover of Alliance Boots .
  • (9) Gordon noticed that "she began to buy paperbacks on psychology at a local drugstore.
  • (10) Data on the use of these NCEs were obtained through the U.S. Pharmaceutical Market--Drugstores and Hospitals and the National Prescription Audit.
  • (11) The job of grown-up moviegoers is to establish their own moral relationship to the material, something I first learned when GoodFellas opened in London alongside Drugstore Cowboy and Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, a troika entirely bereft of moral hand-holding or finger-wagging.
  • (12) The study was carried out in Guatemala by means of a direct interview of 427 employees of an equal number of drugstores, that were representative of the total drugstores in the country.
  • (13) Free 20 Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain, South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California A nostalgic corner drugstore where soda jerks have been pouring floats, phosphates, egg creams and lime rickeys since 1915.
  • (14) A pilot program would be implemented over 12 months at three drugstores of a major retail chain.
  • (15) An employee at the White Pagoda drugstore added: "People didn't come here to buy one or two, but ordered a lot for their friends and family, and companies came here to buy for their staff, too. "
  • (16) Few drugstores have records today of the prescriptions which they filled 20 years ago.
  • (17) Companies like Walgreen’s run the risk of being seen as unpatriotic.” Just two years ago, the Illinois-based drugstore company sought and received tax breaks from the state government, and now it’s ready to leave.
  • (18) Sixteen major therapeutic classes accounted for about 80% of drugstore and hospital expenditures for ethical pharmaceuticals.
  • (19) Chelsea Drugstore As seen in… A Clockwork Orange In Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novella, delinquent droog leader Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) swaggers into this King's Road "disc-boutique", chats up two lollipop-sucking girls and takes them home for "the old in-out".
  • (20) In addition, during June 1976 price surveys were conducted in several large supermarkets, small grocery stores, and drugstores in the Boston area to furnish information on local price differentials.

Grocer


Definition:

  • (n.) A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
  • (2) Protests against the four grocers will be halted while agreements over the new price for milk are finalised.
  • (3) In contrast to the struggles of the established grocers, Aldi increased sales by 17.3% and Lidl grew 16%.
  • (4) Tesco’s accounting scandal has led to concerns about the way the sector handles payments from suppliers for promoting products or hitting sales targets, and UK grocers are operating under fierce competition from discounters such as the German company Aldi which has reported a 65% rise in profits in the UK.
  • (5) Sainsbury's was the only one of the major grocers to increase market share, but it still sits in third place behind Asda, according to Kantar's figures.
  • (6) Aldi was also confirmed as the UK’s fastest growing grocer in the latest market share data released by Kantar Worldpanel.
  • (7) On Monday, after months of intense talks with two US hedge funds, the Co-op Group – which also owns pharmacies, grocers and funeral homes – was forced to cede majority control of its bank as part of its battle to plug a £1.5bn capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
  • (8) Upmarket US grocer Whole Foods Market nearly halved losses in the UK last year as it increased sales by 24%.
  • (9) He was also the grocer's marketing supremo, the man who dreamed up the Clubcard and built the brand's classless image in the UK.
  • (10) But it may help steer a few more people away from Starbucks in the direction of Costa or one of those small independent coffee shops, book shops, grocers (etc, etc) whom we should cherish while they cling on in the face of unfair competition.
  • (11) EasyFoodstore is the easyJet founder’s latest venture – an ultra-budget grocer for people struggling to put food on the table.
  • (12) The dead included an IT specialist employed by the city council, a grocer, and a science professor.
  • (13) The grocer opened 12 new hypermarkets last year, and is due to launch an online groceries business in Shanghai later this year.
  • (14) Traditionally, shoppers have shied away from cut-price stores as they prepare to treat their families at Christmas, instead heading to the big four or to upmarket grocers such as Marks & Spencer and Waitrose.
  • (15) The latest figures from TNS, a market researcher, put Tesco's market share among the grocers at 30.8%, down from a peak of 31.6% reached last August.
  • (16) Fascination with the Protestant pastor's daughter is on a par with that of the grocer's daughter.
  • (17) Like the Co-op grocers or the Big Issue , Building Bloqs is a social enterprise: it has to pay its way in the world, but seeks to reinvest the profits and caps how much anyone can take out.
  • (18) The grocer blamed tough competition for the Czech problems, and pointed to the Chinese bird flu crisis and weak demand for pork after a safety scare for its underperformance there.
  • (19) Now that shopping habits have changed with the arrival of online grocers and the popularity of buying little and often from small local shops, Tesco’s collection of large stores seems more like an albatross around its neck.
  • (20) His first job was also as an errand boy and assistant in a grocer's shop, from which he moved on to be a junior shop assistant and an early switchboard operator.