Commerce, which includes tents, kiosks and grocery stores.

Even those mundane, hateful, plastic grocery bags can become a bridge stronger than anyone imagined.

These are 10 companies control much of what's in our grocery stores, much of what people eat. And that's really, really a problem.

Pesticides are used in grocery stores and food storage facilities to manage rodents and insects that infest food such as grain.

Rausing, who had studied in New York at the beginning of the 1920s, had seen self service grocery stores in the United States, which was unheard of in Europe at the time, and realised that pre packaging was part of the future in food retailing as a more hygienic and practical way of distributing staple groceries.

Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment you cannot pay for your groceries with it.

When you go to buy groceries with it, it doesn't go, I'm the money saved on the car stereo, or, I'm the dumb money saved on the car. It's money.

It was the safe way to buy because a family could not get into debt via its grocery bill (as many families did at the time, especially during the Great Depression).

In another move to distinguish her ingredients from Western versions, Kinyanjui also sells through grocery stores flour flavored with Amarathan, a green vegetable that grows around Kenya.

Carrot cake is popular in loaf, sheet cake and cupcake forms, and (in the United Kingdom, as well as North America) can be found pre packaged at grocery stores, and fresh at bakeries.

And of those three facts, the third one was the most significant, because at the time, in the early 1980s, if you went to a supermarket, you would not find extra chunky spaghetti sauce.

Indeed, small shops advantages are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.

Prior to 1991, the Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but during its last years it was afflicted by shortages of goods in grocery stores, huge budget deficits, and explosive growth in money supply leading to inflation.