(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.
Groper
Definition:
(n.) One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there is a man who is unpleasant, who is a creep and a groper, then it's generally an abuse of power.
(2) Or we say there have always been muggers and gropers, they’re only global news when they’re not white.
(3) As a fugitive paedophile, Polanski had no good name to besmirch, particularly when the alleged besmirching consisted of the accusation that he was a groper.
(4) I was groped on the bus in London and clearly said what was happening, and everybody else looked out the window - not one person stood up to help me, or sent the message to the groper that this was not socially acceptable, and that he would be challenged.
(5) Instead, the Republican nominee blurted out four words: “That makes me smart.” For once Trump – serial liar and alleged serial groper – had inadvertently revealed a great truth.
(6) But George Osborne is reportedly dedicated to ensuring a male succession and the Lib Dems deserve credit from all anti-feminists, not just for rallying round one notorious, but senior, groper against his numerous female accusers, but for Clegg’s unblemished success rate in keeping Lib Dem women out of the cabinet.
(7) They sought only to uphold the law: to remind other women of their right to travel unmolested, gropers that they must keep their hands off, and police that they should arrest offenders.
(8) Are naked breasts, Murdoch puzzles aloud, still as potent a marketing tool as they were in 1969 when the BBC's high-ranking gropers were learning their various trades, and he began grooming tabloid readers with risqué glamour shots?
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest And while Ed Miliband – who last week taunted David Cameron over his all-male front bench – can pride himself on having more women in his top team than any other leader, his party is not without its gropers and its bullies and its unreconstructed chauvinists, all nursing their bitter little knots of resentment.
(10) When someone is a bigot or a racist, it's zero tolerance, but there is clearly a high level of tolerance around being a groper.
(11) Having never thought to be interesting, interested, funny, kind, the groper presumes that he's taking some shortcut to intimacy.
(12) One piece of evidence not presented to the jury in Rolf Harris's trial illustrates with grim eloquence, in retrospect, the prosecution notion that the veteran entertainer was a man of two distinct sides: the avuncular and trustworthy public figure, and lurking behind, the groper and abuser.In 1985 – when, the court heard, Rolf Harris was still assaulting women and was still having an occasional sexual relationship with his daughter's best friend – he fronted an educational video to warn young people about the dangers of sexual abuse.