supermarket shelf

collocation in English

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supermarket
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsuː.pəˌmɑː.kɪt/us
/ˈsuː.pɚˌmɑːr.kɪt/
a large shop which sells most types of food and other goods needed in ...
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shelf
noun[C]
uk
/ʃelf/us
/ʃelf/
a long, flat board fixed horizontally, usually against a wall or inside a cupboard so that objects can be stored ...
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(Definition ofsupermarketandshelffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even a casual glance at much of the imported pabulum, both organic and conventional, lurking on thesupermarketshelflends strength to that particular argument.
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The blood in the bottle has after all less identity, and is less connected with the individual from which it emanated, than the chicken "nuggets" on thesupermarketshelf.
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Think what it would mean—asupermarketshelffull of the religions of the world, all of which are to be given equal exposure and treatment.
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What is worse, it seems to embody an obsessive dislike of supermarkets, as if sin sat on thesupermarketshelf.
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Without it, we make potential design engineers into assembly workers, potential nurses intosupermarketshelfstackers and potential retail staff into benefit liabilities.
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Supermarkets have some explaining to do about why falling farmgate prices are not reflected on thesupermarketshelf.
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They help those who make the money on agricultural produce before it reaches thesupermarketshelf.
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That is desirable for thesupermarketshelfand may look pretty in some fields at some time.
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If there are 17 different brands of baked beans on thesupermarketshelfinstead of 14 is the nation incomparably the richer?
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The amendment would also encourage action better to inform consumers, through labelling and otherwise, about how the product has reached thesupermarketshelf.
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It is for anyone to choose between them as equal options, as it were, on asupermarketshelf.
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What is then to stop those with children taking the smallest size off asupermarketshelf?
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A review is not the same as re-ordering the goods on asupermarketshelf, adding a few here, removing a number of unpopular lines elsewhere.
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However, no constituent has ever written, or been to see me, to complain about being confused by a look-alike product on asupermarketshelf.
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The consumer cannot obtain advice from asupermarketshelf.
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We do not want fish only from aquaculture or a standardised packet off asupermarketshelf.
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Visitors who have had a good experience in an area may well buy the produce of that area if they see it on a shop orsupermarketshelf.
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It is right that we have high standards, and that we demand that the food that ends up on thesupermarketshelfis of the highest standard.
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That seems to me a most dangerous slogan because it suggests that a baby is rather like a commodity to be bought off thesupermarketshelfalong with the cornflakes.
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Broadcasting in particular is not like a material good for sale on asupermarketshelf.
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