Peter Welch

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

American Politician

Melissa Leong

Country town to the city heart, in every corner of the globe you'll find a Chinatown, a Chinese restaurant or an Asian grocer. From this vast and ancient culture, we credit noodles, dumplings, rice, countless spices and cooking techniques to have enriched every culture that they've landed in.

Clive Sinclair

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

British Author

Jose Andres

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

Spanish Chef

Kevin Kwan

As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.

Singaporean Novelist

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.

Israeli Chef

Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

French Novelist

Louise Linton

You might see Al Pacino at the grocers, but you would never go up to him and say, 'Oh my God, you're Al Pacino.

Scottish Actress

Yossi Sarid

It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.

Israeli Politician

Refers to the actual person selling goods, not the location.

Human Seller

Often implies personal interaction and community shopping experience.

Local Interaction

A grocer usually runs a smaller shop than supermarkets and may specialize in certain products.

Not a Supermarket

Refers to buying from a physical location, not online shopping.

Physical Shop

A grocer's shop carries a diverse range of home necessities, not just food.

Varied Inventory

Grocers are often conveniently located within neighborhoods for easy access.

Convenience

 when my mission started. I was collecting food waste for my pigs from my school canteen, the local baker, and the green grocer but I realized that most of the food I was giving to my pigs was actually perfectly good for human consumption. And I remember the day, I sat down for breakfast with my pigs

Exploration+Discovery PIPE...

 that my school friends had turned their noses up at, and I fed them to my pigs. I went to the local baker, and green grocer and markets, and also to a farmer who was throwing away potatoes that were wrong shape or size for the supermarkets. That was great. My pigs loved it.

Tristram Stuart: The...

 because Amazon purchased a grocer one-eleventh the size of Kroger. I got very lucky. I predicted the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon the week before it happened. This is me boasting; I said this publicly in the media. This was the largest acquisition in their history,

How Amazon, Apple,...

 And I quickly discovered by being there that in the blue zone, as people age, and indeed across their lifespans, they're always surrounded by extended family, by friends, by neighbors, the priest, the barkeeper, the grocer. People are always there or dropping by.

The secret to living...

 the mayor, the tailor, the baker, the grocer, or the carpenter. You’ve invited them to dinner with a simple you’ll slip a square of a rare werewolf antidote into each of their dinners. Unfortunately, your pet goat just ate four of the squares,

Can you solve the secret...

 With the advent of online grocers and trending meal kits, consumers are increasingly disconnected with their farmers and the economics of food production. Since the rise of the smartphone revolution, direct-to-consumer goods have stagnated.

Why you should shop at...

 because we're going to grow those flowers in the middle of the inner city. And we're going to have high school kids growing Phalaenopsis orchids in the middle of the inner city. And we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers

Bill Strickland:...

 and we're going to have high school kids growing Phalaenopsis orchids in the middle the inner city and we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers to sell our orchids in all 240 stores and six states and our partners

 In 1975, he lost again. A year later, he ran for the California Assembly– and lost. Yet he tirelessly continued to support his district, befriending bartenders, construction unions, and local Chinese grocers.

Harvey Milk's radical...

 a conservative grocer and a crying transvestite smoking together on the sidewalk. In the face of death and destruction, our mundane differences evaporated, and we all became one even if for a few hours.