Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grocery

Grocery , noun

[French grosserie wholesale. See Grocer.]

1.
The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
A deal box... to carry groceries in. — Goldsmith
The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery. — Macaulay
2.
A retail grocer's shop or store. [United States]