What's the difference between drugstore and supermarket?

Drugstore


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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.

Supermarket


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
  • (2) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (3) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
  • (4) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (5) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (6) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
  • (7) I’d love to say it’s this big, machiavellian plan, but the main thing to blame is human stupidity,” says Phillip Adcock, author of Shoppology: The Science of Supermarket Shopping.
  • (8) The supermarket has appointed advisers to "review" the future of its Fresh & Easy stores in California, Arizona and Nevada after running up more than £1.5bn of investment bills and accumulated losses in five years.
  • (9) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
  • (10) Everything they’re buying would have been thrown out by a mainstream supermarket.
  • (11) With so many superfoods jostling for attention in the media and on supermarket shelves, it’s not always easy to separate the fad from the genuinely healthy.
  • (12) The warning of further food prices came as some British supermarkets said they were struggling to keep shelves stocked with fresh produce and the National Farmers Union (NFU) reported that UK wheat yields have been the lowest since the late 1980s as a result of abnormal rain fall.
  • (13) The lossmaking chain of supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies said in a terse two-line statement that Stuart Ramsay had left the board with immediate effect after "an independent report, and at the request of the board".
  • (14) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
  • (15) The staff bonus pool at J Sainsbury has fallen by a quarter, despite the supermarket chain posting higher sales and profits for the last financial year.
  • (16) Yours at the supermarket for £13.99 if you can get one, which you can't, because they're sold out.
  • (17) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
  • (18) The union's concerns are echoed by the government's migration advisory committee (Mac), which has warned that a shortage of seasonal migrant labour would lead to a 10% to 15% rise in supermarket prices.
  • (19) What’s more, older people are now topping up pensions by doing a few hours a week stacking shelves or operating the tills at the supermarket.
  • (20) Improving monthly industry data has followed, adding to hopes Britain’s largest supermarket may finally be recovering.