Grocery Store or Supermarket

[JaneBanks]

I use both along with the name of the store.

Ditto and I say food shopping and shopping cart.

We have always just said store. As in we are going to the store, do you need anything.

We say this as well.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

I have never said supermarket. Only grocery store.

And I say "buggy" most of the time, sometimes "cart".

I grew up saying both "cart" and "buggy". I think "buggy" was most common. Anyway, my husband is from a different part of the country and he used to always say "cart" and hated it when I said "buggy". Well, one day, our daughter just up and decided that she absolutely WOULD NOT ride in a cart. I then had an idea. I asked her if she would be willing to ride in a buggy. Well darn if she wasn't okay with that! So now, we will go to the grocery store and she will tell us if she wants to ride in a buggy or in a cart.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I say either grocery store or the name of the store which is Publix for me. I much prefer that grocery store over the other choice in my area.

And it's always cart, we've never used the term buggy.

 

[shoney]

I would usually say, I am going "food shopping" or I am going to the "food store".

I may say "supermarket", but not as often.

"grocery store" isn't a common one for me.

I always say shopping cart or cart, never heard buggy before.

My mother sometimes says "shopping wagon" or "wagon".

 

[Sparkly]

I say supermarket or just "I'm off to Tescos, what do you want me to pick up?"

 

[Meriweather]

grocery store or name of the store......never use supermarket or hear anyone use that term

shopping cart or just cart is what I say too......never heard anyone use buggy

 

[PollyannaMom]

I say grocery store, and where I grew up, they had carts - but I sometimes hear "carriage" where I live now.

 

[scrapquitler]

Do you say Grocery Store or supermarket? I say grocery store. Is this a regional thing?

I'm in New England. We say Grocery Store. And we put our purchases in the Cart.

On a similar note: we say the "Highway" but my friend who lives in North Carolina always says that she's going to take the "interstate".

 

[pookybean]

i say grocery store or market pretty interchangeably.

as for the "cart" i now say wagon, because being from Boston I got sick of hearing everyone say what? thinking I said cat. I think I may use carriage from time to time too.

 

[Kitty 34]

We say grocery store and put our things in a cart.

 

[RyMacJ]

I'm in New England. We say Grocery Store. And we put our purchases in the Cart.

On a similar note: we say the "Highway" but my friend who lives in North Carolina always says that she's going to take the "interstate".

I'm in Alabama and I always call it the interstate. Maybe it's a southern thing?

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

I'm in Alabama and I always call it the interstate. Maybe it's a southern thing?

I only say interstate if it actually is an interstate. And even then, I'll say highway if we are out in the middle of nowhere, sometimes. I never call it a highway if it is in the city, though.

 

[Art 1]

I've always referred to it as the food store.

 

[DisneyNutMary]

Mostly I say the name of the store, but if I am speaking to someone who is not familiar with the store I say supermarket, as in, we went to a supermarket during vacation, instead of saying we went to Harris Teeter, or Piggly Wiggly- which do not exist in New York City. When asked about my career, I tend to say I work in the supermarket industry, rather than naming the chain.
I never say grocery store, as "grocery" is just one part of the store to me- the grocery section, or grocery dept, as opposed to the dairy, frozen, meat and produce depts.

I also say cart or wagon, I've never heard of it referred to as a buggy until I visited a supermarket in another state. Even wagon is not a widely used term for a shopping cart, as I got some odd looks the first time I said it to an employee when I worked in a store that was further south in NJ than I had ever worked.

 

[mumto3girls]

I say grocery store and put items in a cart. I am in SW Pennsylvania. We were in Boston for a year and people there seemed to say carriage.

 

[KristaTX]

The only time I've ever said supermarket was when referring to the old TV show, "Supermarket Sweep". And I didn't refer to it very often.

I call it the "grocery store", the "store", or the actual name of the store. Based on this thread, it sounds like "supermarket" is somewhat regional to New York, New Jersey, and over in the UK/Europe?

I use the terms "buggy" and "cart" interchangeably. I do call the thing out in the parking lot where you return it to the "buggy drop-off", but I made that up. It's come up here before, and I know it's more often called the "cart corral".

 

[tvguy]

I only say interstate if it actually is an interstate. And even then, I'll say highway if we are out in the middle of nowhere, sometimes. I never call it a highway if it is in the city, though.

Around here we call it what it is. Interstate 5, Highway 50.
Now this is in Northern California. In southern California they say "the 5" or "the 50", and they are also big on the secondary names for numbers freeways, "The Harbor Freeway" , "The San Diego Freeway".

To the OP's original question........pretty much equally either the specific store name, the grocery store, or the supermarket.

 

[tvguy]

. If I'm going to the grocery store, I'm going to the little local place with kind of a crap selection. If I'm going to the supermarket, I'm going to one of the huge chain mega-stores.

I hear them used more or less interchangeably pretty often though.

Around here, even the local places are big. Only thing smaller would be like 7-11 or Circle K.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I call them a food and household resupply depot.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I just usually name the store. Sometimes for comedic effect I add "'s" at the end of the word.

It seems to me there is a difference between a "supermarket" and a "grocery store"? To me, a supermarket is something like a Kroger or Schnucks. A grocery store is more of a small... more local type place, or like IGA or something.

...and yes I use a shopping cart (after wiping it down with the disinfecting wipes or germX).