market basket

a basket or cart for groceries.

a selected group of consumer goods and services whose cost is tracked for calculating a consumer price index and measuring the cost of living.

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Without her market-basket, which is a sort of wicker well with two flapping lids, she never stirs abroad.
Bleak House|Charles Dickens
In a moment she was back, and the two walked on, Flora insisting on helping Ruth with her market-basket.
The Hazeley Family|A. E. Johnson
Now came Temperance with her market-basket, and she had to be told.
It Might Have Been|Emily Sarah Holt
I ought in conscience to have had a separate dish for the potatoes, but my market-basket was resolved not to take it.
Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking|Susan Warner

Br'er Rabbit had on a li'l' apron, and he kept bringing things in his market-basket.
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller|Fanny E. Coe