10 English Words to Use at the Supermarket

hi everybody and welcome back to top

words my name is Alisha and today we’re
gonna talk about ten words that you can

use at the supermarket so let’s go
basket the first word is basket basket

basket is the usually plastic or
sometimes metal basket you carry on your

arm are you carry with your hand that
you put items in at the supermarket in a

sentence pick up a basket shopping cart
the next expression is shopping cart

shopping cart is like a big basket you
can push it it’s a cart that you use to

put your shopping in your items in in a
sentence I don’t need a shopping cart on

sale the next expression is on sale on
sale when an item is on sale it means

it’s at a cheaper price it’s at a
discount this can be a price discount

this can be a percentage discount so for
example there are items let’s see on

sale 30% off or on sale for five dollars
for example in a sentence hey maple

syrup is on sale but maple syrup the
other day that’s why that’s that

examples in this one two four one two
four one two four one is a type of

bargain a type of discount to two items
so if I have two water bottles for

example I buy two water bottles for the
price of one water bottle so this means

I can have two items at the price of
just one item so that’s what this type

of bargain this type of sale means in a
sentence there’s a two-for-one deal on

this ice cream
buy one get one free the next expression

is buy one get one free buy one get one
free actually is the same thing as

two-for-one when you think about it so
buy one item get one item the same item

free in if the FE item is the same item
then yes it’s it’s the same as a

two-for-one but you buy one item you get
same item or equivalent item for free so

you might see a buy one get one free
sale in a sentence pasta sauces buy one

get one free per pound the next
expression is something something per

pound or in your country it might be per
kilogram or per ounce for example so but

the key here is a unit of measurement a
unit of weight in this expression so

some items in a supermarket you purchase
you buy according to how much they weigh

according to their weight so if you want
to buy cereal for example you can

measure like maybe a pound of cereal or
a kilogram of cereal and then the amount

the weight of the product equals a price
so for example if something is $1.00 per

pound and you buy 5 pounds of potatoes
for example that means it’s 5 dollars so

this is an expression that shows how
much something costs according to weight

in a supermarket you also might see a
price with a slash mark before the unit

of measurement this slash mark is read
per something something per pound per

kilogram and so on in a sentence
potatoes are 3 dollars per pound

groceries the next word is groceries
groceries you might also hear this in

the word grocery store groceries just
means food products any food products

are groceries or food and maybe you can
include everyday life products here too

like paper towels I suppose but usually
people associate usually people

understand groceries to mean food
products so that’s why we sometimes call

supermarkets grocery stores as well in a
sentence I need to buy some groceries

frozen meals the next expression is
frozen meals so frozen meals or maybe a

popular a common way to to prepare a
meal usually they are found in the

freezer section of a supermarket or the
freezer section of a grocery store these

are meal
which are pre-prepared so they are

prepared and frozen in a box and you can
choose one meal in a box and take it

home heat it up in your oven or your
microwave we call these frozen meals so

it’s one meal complete meal in theory in
a box and you can eat it later after you

heat it up in a sentence I rarely buy
frozen meals that’s true to check out

the next expression is to check out to
check out means to pay it means to

finish your shopping so to check out we
sometimes say let’s check out at the

called the self checkout self checkout
means there’s no staff person there’s no

one helping at the register it’s just
you and a machine you scan your items

pay and finish so that’s a self checkout
but the verb we use is to check out in a

sentence I’m done let’s check out to use
a coupon the next expression is to use a

coupon to use a coupon for pronunciation
I say coupon you might hear some people

say coupon as well I’ve heard coupon and
coupon I say coupon do you say coupon or

complete coupon yeah I prefer coupon you
prefer coupon we’re gonna go with coupon

but you might hear coupon to use a
coupon means you have a usually a small

piece of paper or maybe these days it’s
something like I don’t know you can get

coupons on your phone now yeah coupon
gets you a discount you get a discounted

price or you get maybe a buy one get one
free deal something like that so in a

sentence I want to use this coupon
please alright that’s the end alright so

those are 10 words that you can use in
the supermarket I hope that those helped

you the next time you go shopping for
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of the words we use maybe you have

coupon let’s see it says potatoes are on
sale for one dollar a pound

instead of three dollars a pound