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A
supermarket is a large grocery store/shop where you might find
what you are looking for.
Whatever
it takes to cook a good meal, you will find it at the grocery store/shop,
supermarket, food mart, or at one of the big food chains usually represented
all over your country.
Green
Grocer's
is primarily a place for vegetables, fresh field produce such as swedes
(Yes, yes…), tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, onions, cauliflower, parseley,
horse radish etc.
The
Butcher's, Meat Market, Meat Mart
or Butcher Shop,
is where you find minced meat (Br)
or ground beef, sausages, sliced ham, leg of lamb, game and poultry.
Dairy
products are most commonly found in your ordinary grocery store, supermarket or
deli (delikatessen), together with places like
7-Eleven (7 - 11)
stores or
other similar round-the-clock stores/ shops.

Dairy
Shops
carrying dairy products
only aren't that common anymore.
Mostly
we buy our dairy products at the grocery store,at the grocer's.
Dairy
products come from dairies, dairy
farms or other suppliers,
distributors
or wholesalers.
Delikatessens,
or delis,
focus on/specialize in/ fast food, sandwiches, sandwich items, snacks, beverages,
liquor, beer, wine, candy, cigarettes and a limited supply of groceries and
chemicals.
The
closest thing to this would be a "servicebutik"
in Sweden.
So
far we haven't seen any wine and liquor though.
The
American drugstore is one of the most
frequently mistreated, and abused words there are, when it comes to translation
from TV, radio and newspapers together with, unfortunately, school text books at
all levels throughout Scandinavia.
Drugstores
do carry drugs, medicine, pills, hygiene articles, contraceptives and many, many
other things, yes.
However,
Swedish "apotek" is far from a drugstore. It might resemble
the
prescription desk at the drugstore. Swedish "apotek" is similar
to Pharmacy
and Chemist's, and in some instances only, to a drugstore.
In
a regular drugstore you find all kinds of goods/ articles/ items, such as
cleaning liquids, bathroom supplies, cosmetics, beverages, tobacco products,
batteries, cassette tapes, underwear, watches, candy, hair spray and deodorants,
snacks, films, and sometimes even cameras, ice-cream
and ice.

Occasionally, especially in smaller towns all over the U.S., you will
find a counter at which you can have a cup of coffee, an ice cream, a sundae,
milkshake and a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream on top. In the drugstore
business, as in many other trades, you can see many chain stores such as Longs
Drugs, Rexall Drugs etc. In smaller towns the drugstore is usually the meeting
place of the local town population. Some people say for sure, that this is where
rumor starts, and this is where it ends...
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