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The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Looking for a new competitive edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps.

From Time Magazine Archive

In England, gentlemen's sons did not make friends of grocerymen, and it seemed to him a rather singular proceeding.

From Little Lord Fauntleroy by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

They have survived their juvenile ambitions to be milkmen, policemen, lamp-lighters, butchers, grocerymen, etc., respectively.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene