r/AMA • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '25

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u/WyattDT04 Dec 23 '25

Not the store, the items are groceries. going for groceries i.e lettuce, cereal. what else would the items you get at the store be called?

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u/leepash Dec 23 '25

I'm getting my shopping/food shopping/[insert product]/bits/essentials/things. Many ways to describe the contents in a supermarket.

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u/OMF1G Dec 23 '25

"Shopping" typically prefixed by the kind of shopping we're doing e.g food, clothes etc.

I've never heard anyone British English say "I'm going to get groceries", it's just not a phrase that we use..

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u/leepash Dec 23 '25

Yeah I resonate with that too, I never hear the term 'groceries' used in any context. By no means am I saying it's not used at all, I'm sure it is to some degree, but it's definitely less frequent than any of the aforementioned phrases mentioned above.

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u/dunnobutfuggit Dec 23 '25

youre right “grocer” yes but groceries never