grocery shoppingn.
/ˈɡrəʊs(ə)rɪ ˌʃɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡroʊs(ə)ri ˌʃɑpɪŋ/ The action or practice of shopping for groceries.
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1872 A. Teetgen Pamphlet Reporting Proc. House (Little) Commons 28 I hope, with all the power that my heart can express, that this disgracefully undignified mode of grocery shopping..will be scorned, hated, and detested, by our rising generations.
1973 O. D. Duncan et al. Soc. Change Metrop. Community (1974) 13 We see a substantial increase in the proportion of homes where the grocery shopping is always the wife's job.
2017 R. Gay Hunger lxv. 221 I tried a service.., which does the meal planning but leaves you responsible for the grocery shopping.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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