greengrocer
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"You're not going into your greengrocer and asking 'what is fresh, what's in season, what's your best products?' You really only have one option; you go in with a trolley and you shop."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
By declining to endorse the mantra, Havel wrote, the greengrocer goes from “living within a lie” to “living within the truth.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
I’m momentarily reminded of the daughter of a British greengrocer, Margaret Thatcher, who, early in her political career, established her economic credentials by the simple expedient of knowing the price of butter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
He indicated his background was to blame for those comments, as a former greengrocer from Peckham working in an environment that was "jovial and crude".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
But by Wednesday when the greengrocer came he often had to ask for it back, and she always had it, unspent and waiting.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The greengrocers has been a feature on Ebbw Vale's high street for 30 years, but the 51-year-old admits getting people to buy fruit and veg is hard.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
In Australia, Chinese takeaways date back to the 1850s, when Chinese cookhouses and greengrocers provided for gold miners in remote parts of the country.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
We needed some essentials for our bikes, and found a little motorcycle workshop down a backstreet, incongruous among a jumble of North African greengrocers.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2018
"Often on tour, we'd pull over to a greengrocers somewhere in the middle of some vale, buy some bread and cheese, and just pull off the highway and eat in a field," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2016
"There's also a great gaggle of bakers, butchers, and greengrocers clamoring to be heard."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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