Grocery Store or Supermarket

[goofinoff]

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

 

[Tink575]

We say supermarket here, well all my friends and family do

 

[Minnesota!]

grocery store

 

[dawnhaze]

They're different things, in my vocabulary. 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.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

Grocery store...I never use the word supermarket. We pretty much just shop at Aldi and Costco so I tend to just use the store names.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

I have never said supermarket. Around here, everyone I know says grocery store. I only hear supermarket on television. I figure it is regional kind of like "grocery shopping" vs. "food shopping"

 

[pinkxray]

Grocery store...I never use the word supermarket. We pretty much just shop at Aldi and Costco so I tend to just use the store names.

Pretty much the same here. I use the store name or grocery store if I had to. I never really hear people say supermarket. Around here it's mostly "Going to Shoprite."

 

[mamamary]

If I had to pick it would be grocery store but like others have said I usually say the store name.

 

[ABCastillo]

I say grocery store and DH says "market" (we grew up in the same state too!)

 

[Peanut Giggleface]

I'm another one that references the name of the store I'm heading to. But in general I refer to them as grocery stores.

 

[mom2boys77]

I've never heard anyone say supermarket. We just say going to Shoprite or food shopping.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I've heard both, but I usually specify the store I'm going to rather than say generically "grocery store" or "supermarket". I do say "grocery shopping".

 

[willowsnn3]

I say grocery store or the specific name. And I use a buggy not a cart.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I use both equally.

 

[cluvsdisney]

I use both along with the name of the store.

 

[msjprincess]

supermarket

 

[Southernmiss]

I say "going to the grocery" or "grocery store". Deep south.

Make groceries or get a grocery bill is another regional thing said in my area near Louisiana.

 

[powellrj]

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

 

[Lintasare]

Commissary. Then again I grew up in a military family.

Now I just use the name of the store we are going to, Smiths, Sprouts, Whole Foods...ect.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I just say store. I am not one who really likes shopping. So it is about the only place I go. If I am in need of something then I name the store. Like Target, Walmart and such.