Grocery Store Vocabulary: shop in English

Vanessa: Hi, I'm Vanessa from  

SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com. Would you like  to go grocery shopping with me? Let's do it. 

Have you ever been grocery shopping? Of course you  have, but have you ever been grocery shopping in  

an American grocery store? Well, today I would  like to invite you to join me and my young son,  

Freddie, as we go into this grocery store and pick  up a couple things. I will explain along the way.  

Hopefully you will learn some useful vocabulary,  some expressions, and hopefully I will not be  

too embarrassed to be filming in public. And  you'll be able to use this in your daily life  

and learn something about American culture. And like always, I have created a free PDF  

worksheet that you can download with a link in  the description with all of today's phrases,  

expressions, ideas, and at the bottom  of the PDF worksheet, you can answer  

Vanessa's challenge question. So don't forget  to download that PDF and continue learning.  

Never forget what you've learned today.  All right, let's go into the grocery store. 

All right. First things first, we are going to  go through the parking lot and get a cart. I  

call this just a cart, but some people call it a  shopping cart. And here in the south where I live,  

people call it a buggy. Our first stop is the  free fruit snack for kids. This is Freddie's  

favorite thing to do in the grocery store,  so I sure hope they have something for him. 

Look at this, Freddie. Freddie: 

Yeah. Vanessa: 

You want a banana? Freddie: 

‘Nana. Vanessa: 

Yeah? Okay. Can you open it?  Maybe you need some help. Wow.  

Hold it down there. Yummy. Dan: 

All right. Vanessa: 

All right. Let's go get some  stuff from the produce section.  

Notice that I said the word produce  section. This just means where you  

can buy fruits and vegetables, but let's pay  attention to the pronunciation of that word  

produce. The emphasis is at the beginning,  produce. There's another word, which is a verb  

to produce something. I produce one YouTube video  every week. Here the emphasis is at the end,  

produce. I produce a video. This is different  than the produce section. We're in the produce  

section right now and let's see what's going to  happen next. Who knows. It could be anything. 

Should I get the single ones or should I get the  

bag? Dan: 

Get a bag. We can make the sparkling water. Vanessa: 

Well, let's see. There's 94 cents for  this. And there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in here  

for $5. It's a better deal, but  they're in a bag. We'll get this. 

Dan: What do you think? Should we get lemons? 

Vanessa: Yeah, let's get some lemons. 

When you're buying produce, you have two options.  You can buy loose produce like the broccoli that  

I bought, or you can buy bagged produce like the  lemons that I bought, or here like the potatoes.  

And really there are so many to choose  from. It's pretty unbelievable the type  

of options that we have these days. I  feel so lucky to have these options.