groceterian.
North American.
A grocery store in which customers serve themselves and pay the cashier as they leave.
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1913 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 25 Mar. 1036/1 Lutey Bros., Butte, Montana. Filed Mar. 14, 1912. Groceteria.
1916 Illustr. World (Chicago) Jan. 655/1 In Pomona, California, a small grocery store has suddenly sprung into prominence..by adopting the ‘wait-on-yourself’ plan of cafeteria. A ‘Groceteria’ if you please.
1920 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. [In San Francisco] You can buy your groceries in grocerterias..and your shoes in booteries.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Mar. 20/4 (advt.) Groceteria Daily Bulletin. All Day Specials.
1921 Dial. Notes 5 112 Grocerteria, n. (gro-ser-ter'-ja; gro-ser-te-rî'-a; gro-se-tér-ja). Pronunciation varies. First pronunciation dominant in California; but second commoner here and there in West.
1925 Canad. Labor Advocate 18 Sept. 8/1 Kirkham's Grocerteria Ltd. the working man's store.
1935 Words Jan. 11/2 Some years ago in Oregon a self-service grocery opened under the sign ‘Groceteria’, evidently under the impression that the suffix ‘—teria’ means ‘serve yourself’.
1962 Guardian 30 Aug. 6/6 An American ‘grocertaria’ [sic], a sort of super super-market.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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