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The story of online grocer FreshDirect is something of a chicken-or-egg riddle.

Last week, after news reports of a chain store limiting basmati rice sales surfaced, his wife headed to a local Indian grocer to snag a bag.

The grocer walked over, trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.

I must remember not to slouch, he thought, and I must lose fifteen pounds. I look like a fat grocer.

Her father had been a grocer, and when she was a girl, she had helped him in the shop.

The grocer walked over, and trying to be friendly, asked the boy If he had a lot of laundry to do.

Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.

And as she was too chaste, too pure, to consent to such love as the grocer wanted she did not want to deceive me.

Customer: How much is the lettuce? Grocer: Seventy-nine cents a head. But I can give it to you for forty since there's not much left.

asked Jennie, who, coming in after having stopped at the grocer's for her mother, saw George with a solemn pout on his face.

All this had been watched for a whole year by a neighbour, a fat shopkeeper, and not a humble one but the owner of two grocer's shops.

'These have been a good Games, very good for China, ' said Pei Yuekai, the owner of a corner grocer in downtown Beijing.

The grocer put his hand in and dumped a generous portion into the little fellow's cap, which he promptly held out .

If the green-grocer had such a thing as a laurel wreath, I should send Billy round for it.

The system would not supply food directly, but would instead top up credit at the patient's grocer using an automatic link.

The grim fact that he had to grope in the dark made the greedy grocer moan and groan.

"Very good, " said the grocer , and he noted down the sale.

On the day the greenhouse was open to the public, the grocer greeted the guests at the door.

It used to be that a paper route or an after-school job at the local grocer was viewed as a rite of passage for young people.

The grocer 'knew everything about this bird -- they probably even knew when its birthday was, ' he says.

The triumph of grocer's daughter Margaret Thatcher put paid to her party's toffs who sneered at her cohort as "garagistes" .

"Anything else ? " The grocer cocked his head on one side, looking at her pleasantly.

The women was accused of stealing in the grocer, while she insisted that she was innocent.

The grocer discussed this marriage in private with his wife.

Martin saw in every line, not the fine Italian hand, but the coarse grocer's fist, of his brother-in-law.

It is almost a decade since the collapse of Webvan, an American internet grocer that was a darling of the dotcom boom.

In literature, vulgarity is preferable to nullity, just as grocer's port is preferable to distilled water.

One Tuesday morning, the local grocer has refused to extend him any more credit, and his banker has long since refused to return his calls.

Torchlight local grocer In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer.

Tate was apprenticed to a grocer at the age of thirteen.

Grocer discounts are at record levels in the U. K. , where Britons are spending less ahead of government-spending cuts and tax hikes.

"All right, " said the grocer. "I'll sleep in the barn. " And off he went.

The green grocer told me to take my pIck of the apples, so I chose the bIg, rIpe ones.

The grocer called on him once a week.

When I reached the age of twelve I left the school for ever and got my first fulltime job, as a grocer's boy.

M-Pesa lets you convert cash into cellphone money at your local grocer, and this money can instantly be wired to anyone with a phone.

In the torchlight , he caught sight of a figure that he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer .

I made friends with the grocer after visiting his shop for a few times.

He has decided to open a grocer store in a small way.

is an ad promoting Coca-Cola to food store managers in a trade publication like progressive Grocer.

I have only just said that she may have had that thought: of two evils choose the worst - that is the grocer.

As it was, our house was mortgaged to the hilt, and some winters the grocer carried us on his books.

The domain resembles a specialty grocer who provides ingredients for a particular cuisine.

Even the assistants in the grocer's and draper's shops laughed and ridiculed and pointed the finger of scorn at them as they passed.

In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer.

A grocer is serving customers when he sees a small boy standing near an open box of sweet biscuits.

"You keep it, " said Hurstwood, sadly. "I only want enough to pay the grocer. "

In doing this he would satisfy everybody - the grocer, his sister, Ruth, and even Maria, to whom he owed a month's room rent.

On the day appointed for the banquet, a grocer's van drove up from Willingdon and delivered a large wooden crate at the farmhouse.

"Well, when can you? " said the grocer.

Above, residents of the southern Italian region of Calabria chat with a grocer in June 2011.

When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.

The question resonates with a New York grocer.

The grocer sparred with her outside his store .

If you do not normally chat with the grocer on the store that you always go to, try doing so now.

Healthy Returns: Repeatedly pitching Bear Naked products to local grocer Stew Leonard's yielded no response.

The grocer was making up the butter into half- pound packages.

She was at the grocer's on Monday, September 9th.

Canned chiles : Canned chiles can be found in your grocer's Mexican or ethnic foods section.

Carrefour's aggressive overseas expansion comes at an uncertain time for the world's second-largest grocer.

The grocer, who was driving a wagon, got frustrated by the frost and slippery lane.

Nowadays, you are a target for terrorist attacks whether you are a grocer, a barber, a painter or a politician.

Her father kept a grocer's shop for a number of years.

Food might not be purchased from a grocer or from a supermarket.

If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.

The grocer's shelves were overstocked with merchandise.

Mr Vesey has been criticised by industry chiefs for raising the issue in The Grocer but animal welfare experts say his argument is valid.

Grocer: Eggs and matches. I'm afraid that I haven't any matches.

There's a grocer's at the corner of the street.

The film focuses on life at the Tianli grocer's store, a place where the villagers gather to chat, drink, play and so on.

A grocer built up a greenhouse nearby a gulf.

"Ihave a 14-year-old girl and I would never let her go, " said OlindoPalozzi, 47, a grocer in downtown Rome.

SIEGEL: So what's the likelihood that these decisions by the nation's biggest grocer will make us eat better?

I got ours used from a local grocer and it held hundreds of pounds of food, so it's strong.

That grocer always overcharges.

Do you speak Mandarin, and fancy a visit to the beehives on the roof of Fortnum & Mason, where the luxury grocer gets its honey?

The grocery store is a place. The grocer works in the grocery store.

Father ordered milk, eggs, and butter from the grocer.

That grocer never overcharges.

I'm going to the grocer's to get some groceries.

We buy carrots and eggplants at the green grocer's.

I ran into old friend Henry the other day at the grocer's .

She always buys flour, sugar and tea at the grocer's .

The grocer studies to please His customers.

You can buy biscuits, sugar, soap and tea at the grocer's.

They were at the grocer's on Friday.

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People can't understand why he consumed goods which amounted to 300 yuan in the grocer's.

This produce then ripens in transit, on the way to the grocer's bins, or soon after reaching the Stores.

The grocer calls on the Kirks every Friday .

The grocer's has plenty varieties of goods in stock.

The grocer calls on the Kirks every Friday .

We deal with the comer grocer.

The grocer's boy calls every Monday for orders.

The gross grocer crossed his legs ago the boss.

Go down to the grocer's and get me some sugar.

and under his closed eyelids, in fiery figures, burned the "$3. 85" he owed the grocer.

The grocer made out the bill.

Pay the bill and ask the grocer to receipt it.

The gross grocer crossed his legs before the boss.

When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.

I've finished with our grocer for good; that's the third time he's tried to give me short change.

You can buy some biscuits in that grocer.

The grocer turned on the shop boy who had lost the parcel.

When were they at the grocer's?

The food in this grocer's shop looks cheap and nasty, I should not care to buy it.

Mr. Clark is a grocer by trade.

The grocer's is next door but one.

So the only way he can get back to the mainland is on the grocer's boat.

CAROL: must go grocer's.

The food at this grocer's is fresh.

You can buy all these things at the grocer's.

I must go to the grocer's. We haven't got much tea or coffee. I must have got any sugar or jam.

When I say I'm a genius's wife they won't give me food free at the grocer 's.

The woman said that she must go to the grocer's.

She has had a fling at that purse-proud grocer 's wife.

And the grocer would say, 'Do you mean blintzes, Herr Professor? '

Indian grocer Radhakant Baijpai certainly has a goal in life: make sure that he has the longest ear hair in the world.

She is a Chinese grocer's daughter.

Go to the grocer's and get some eggs and some matches please, dear.

I must go to the grocer's to get some groceries.

I must go to the grocer's to get some eggs.

Are you going to the grocer's this afternoon?

A grocer must know how to blend different kinds of tea.

Can you go to the grocer's with me?

(1)I must go to the grocer's to get some groceries.

She looked out of her window one day and gave her heart to the grocer' young man. (O Henry) s

She asked the grocer to keep a good cut of beef for her each week

I bought some flour at the grocer's.

One afernoon, when I was eight years old, i was going to the grocer's with Mom.

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