A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods and/or clothing.
The word 'supermarket' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it whenever you need to refer to a large store that sells a variety of food and other household items. For example, "I went to the supermarket to pick up some groceries.".
Outside on the pavement, they had plentiful supplies of broccoli, potatoes and other vegetables and a supermarket trolley piled high with rucksacks, a couple of guitars and a dog named Zeus.
When you hear the words "pasta salad", it's hard not to think of those little tubs at the supermarket, bound in a mayonnaise-like substance, the pasta overcooked and chilled to a tasteless mush.
Who knows, in years to come goat may be as ubiquitous on supermarket shelves as New Zealand lamb.
Wetherspoon is stepping up its efforts in the breakfast market to counteract slowing sales growth and what it says is the malign effect of cheap supermarket alcohol on the pub trade.
Activists, trade unionists and supermarket workers have launched a campaign to highlight low pay and "in-work poverty" at Sainsbury's, one of the Paralympic sponsors.
The chickens were apparently a reference to a 2010 stunt carried out by Voina, a radical art collective to which some Pussy Riot members previously belonged, in which a participant stole a whole raw chicken from a supermarket and inserted it into her vagina.
Deborah was talking about the kind of charity that shakes a tin outside a supermarket, or does a bungee jump, or sets up a direct debit.
Thanks to Ludwig my first paper got accepted! The editor wrote me that my manuscript was well-written
Listya Utami K.
PhD Student in Biology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia