Angela, from Dallas, grew up in northwest Louisiana and calls the wheeled basket at the grocery store a buggy. Her husband, Eric, prefers shopping cart. Dialect surveys show buggy is particularly widespread in the South, including East Texas...
Kro-ghetto n.—Gloss: A supermarket in the Kroger chain of stores. «They leave no class behind, ranging from the luxuriously large Whole Foods version to the one-dollar polyester deal available at the grocery store in my neighborhood...
home meal replacement n.— «In America, though, where eating out is a way of life, the supermarket dinner—“home meal replacement” as they call it in the business—has yet to catch on.» —“Britain tries to stir a fast-food revolution in...
Obamadolatry n.— «Obamadolatry: This should be a new dictionary word and definition when new dictionaries are published, one that adequately explains the worship now being showered on the President-elect. The worship Obama now enjoys...
land banking n.— «It also claims that established supermarkets may further frustrate their rivals by buying up land adjacent existing shopping precincts—a practice known as “land banking.”» —“Aldi argues that rules favour...
food desert n.— «Health experts have taken to calling low-income neighborhoods “food deserts,” and it is easy to see why. Supermarkets are usually in short supply and specialty produce and health-food stores are even rarer. Residents are...