How to say "grocery" in Japanese

• グローサリー
  nounA direct loanword used for 'grocery', but it is less common and marginal; for everyday purposes Japanese speakers rarely use it, preferring established native terms instead.
• 食料雑貨店しょくりょうざっかてん
  nounCovers the shop sense of 'grocery', meaning a store selling food and sundry goods, but it is less common in ordinary speech; use it when you specifically mean the shop itself.

For a shop, 食料雑貨店 is the concrete term, though uncommon; 「グローサリー」 is a rare direct loanword; neither naturally covers 'groceries' as purchased food items.

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• グローサリーgrocery
• 食料雑貨店しょくりょうざっかてんgrocery