groceryman
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The housewife tends to castigate the retail groceryman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S.
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Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga.
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The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake.
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"Oh, joy!" said the old groceryman, as he heaved a sigh, and tried to look sorry.
From Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
Looking for a new competitive edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the president's own filbert nursery at Rochester over 300 pounds of fine nuts were produced for which 30 cents a pound were offered by grocerymen.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 by Northern Nut Growers Association
I sell some apples in the orchard to neighbors, and some to grocerymen.
From The Apple by Various
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