Walking outdoors, washing clothes, preparing food, independent travel (by car or train), shopping for groceries, managing money, doing heavy housework, doing light housework, and making phone calls.
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I am horrified at the number of shopkeepers who are still prepared to deliver goods such as bread, milk, groceries and greengrocery.
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The situation is so bad that a small shop selling basic groceries has had to be provided in the voluntary neighbourhood centre.
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She would no longer be able to buy that bag of groceries—the shop would be shut because of bankruptcy.
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Supermarkets have reduced the competition, particularly for groceries.
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The sector where the increases are most widespread is groceries.
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The customers would willingly pay higher prices for their groceries because of the saving in petrol and bus fares to the supermarket.
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We do not intend that a commodity like education should be sold over the counter, like groceries, for vouchers.
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There is one less than a quarter of a mile from here which sells groceries, a few magazines and paperbacks.
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Nevertheless, the figure amounts to £27 million a year in dry groceries alone.
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As with any business—such as groceries or the manufacture of shoes—there are two aspects.
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They take the pensioners' groceries—certainly the immobile pensioners' groceries—out with them, hand over the pension at the same time and then give the change.
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In addition to providing postal facilities, it sells groceries, stationery, newspapers, tobacco and many other goods.
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There aread hoccommittees of wholesalers and retailers concerned with meat, flour, bread, milk, sugar, tea, and other provisions and groceries.
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Collocationswithgrocery
grocery
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grocery bill
What will the weeklygrocerybillbe then?
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grocery chain
Would a fraction of that waste have been tolerated in other aspects of public service, still less in agrocerychain?
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grocery shopping
A joint trip-timing/store-type choice model forgroceryshoppingincluding feedback, inventory effects and non-parametric control for omitted variables.
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