13 Facts About Grocery stores

Larger types of Grocery stores that sell groceries, such as supermarkets and hypermarkets, usually stock significant amounts of non-food products, such as clothing and household items.

Many rural areas still contain general Grocery stores that sell goods ranging from tobacco products to imported napkins.

Traditionally, general Grocery stores have offered credit to their customers, a system of payment that works on trust rather than modern credit cards.

The development of supermarkets and other large grocery stores has meant that smaller grocery stores often must create a niche market by selling unique, premium quality, or ethnic foods that are not easily found in supermarkets.

Grocery stores operate in many different styles ranging from rural family-owned operations, such as IGAs, to boutique chains, such as Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's, to larger supermarket chain stores such as Walmart and Kroger Marketplace.

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Grocery stores can be small or large physical stores or electronic stores.

Many convenience Grocery stores offer food ready to eat, such as breakfast sandwiches and other breakfast food.

Several online grocery stores exist, one of the oldest available in the U S being Peapod.

Online grocery stores are more popular in Europe, where sales from 2012 in Britain alone were €7.

In some countries such as the United States, grocery stores descended from trading posts, which sold not only food but clothing, furniture, household items, tools, and other miscellaneous merchandise.

Food that passed the best before, and sell-by date, and even some food that passed the use-by date is still edible at the time of disposal, but Grocery stores have widely varying policies to handle the excess food.

Some Grocery stores put effort into preventing access to poor or homeless people while others work with charitable organizations to distribute food.

Some grocery stores donate leftover food to homeless shelters or charity kitchens.