(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.
Grower
Definition:
(n.) One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
Example Sentences:
(1) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(2) strain 3707, a chromogenic rapid grower; C72 to C78 (av.
(3) The labels "very strong," "strong," and "mild," used in rating the tobacco quality by the growers in Thailand, were not found to reflect the relative nicotine and tar yields.
(4) Sure, I'd love to be able to never go near a supermarket, and get everything from the growers market, but that's not achievable where I live, even on a comfortable middle class income.
(5) Birds fed on the grower diet with the highest energy concentration gave significantly better FCE than those fed on the other diets.
(6) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.
(7) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
(8) Rice is the staple crop, and climate change risks the food security of thousands of villages,” says Chay Bounphanousay, deputy director of Laos’s National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute , where scientists and growers are working to develop new rice varieties that can withstand drought, floods and heat waves.
(9) The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) dependent 6-PG dehydrogenase was detected only in the fast growers and was more than twice as active as the NAD-linked enzyme.
(10) Persistent lymphocyte growth was observed in 39 patients, and 15 of these growers (or 41%) developed graft coronary disease.
(11) Isonitrogenous grower diets made up of corn and soybean meal or largely oats served as control diets.
(12) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
(13) The state's next legal amendment is likely to establish Opec-style production caps to deter its legitimate growers from diverting excess supply to illegal dealers in neighbouring states.
(14) In an effect study 137 workers who applied pesticides for more than 10 years (average 20 years) in at least bulb disinfection and crop protection (the most important area's of exposure for the growers) were compared to 73 controls.
(15) Average daily weight gains of the starter grower period were improved for about 12%, feed conversion ratio for about 14%.
(16) Mansur Sarker is the only Bt brinjal grower in Gazipur who has had a high yield.
(17) Queensland banana farmers have called for a compensation scheme to be developed for growers whose crops have been affected by a devastating fungal disease.
(18) By the 2080s, English wine growers could harvest French grape varieties on the slopes of the Lake District.
(19) In the second experiment, males fed 15% protein during the grower period gained and weighed more than those fed 12 or 18% protein, and those fed 15% ED gained and weighed significantly more than those fed 20% EOD.
(20) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.