The difference between General store and Grocery

When used as nouns, general store means a store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise, and which is not departmentalized, whereas grocery means retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.


Grocery is also verb with the meaning: to go grocery shopping.

check bellow for the other definitions of General store and Grocery

  1. General store as a noun:

    A store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise, and which is not departmentalized.

  1. Grocery as a noun (usually [[groceries]]):

    retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

  2. Grocery as a noun:

    A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

  1. Grocery as a verb (intransitive):

    To go grocery shopping.

  2. Grocery as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish with groceries.