(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.
Item
Definition:
(adv.) Also; as an additional article.
(n.) An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill.
(n.) A hint; an innuendo.
(n.) A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
(v. t.) To make a note or memorandum of.
Example Sentences:
(1) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(3) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(4) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(5) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(6) Nearly all 17 items of a behaviour rating scale had improved very significantly by the end of the fourth week, while in 82% of the patients of group A and 76% of group B results were rated good to very good.
(7) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(8) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
(9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
(10) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
(11) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(12) The performance of candidates on the geriatric medicine items on the American Board of Internal Medicine's 1980, 1981, and 1982 Certifying Examinations was analyzed.
(13) By using a quasi-A-B-A experimental design for the six abortion items that appeared in the Edmonton Area Survey for the years 1984, 1987, and 1988, we found that the order of presentation of the items affected dramatically the endorsement of the abortion items.
(14) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(15) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(16) The objectivity of the items was proved by fourfold examination of the same sample group.
(17) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(18) Following this relaxation procedure, subjects were asked to complete a 20 item questionnaire in which a five point rating scale served as an index of the degree of acceptance of relaxation.
(19) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
(20) Our own criteria for evaluating hypertension were employed on the basis of the following items: a past history of hypertension, blood pressure levels on admission and during hospitalization, degree of retinopathy, and ECG changes.