### Instruction:
What is a grocery store?

### Response:
A grocery store is a place that offers food and beverages to people for purchase.  You can purchase raw ingredients for cooking, drinks for hydration, meat for barbecuing, raw fruits and vegetables, and pre-packaged foods like pizza, candy and ice cream.  The food purchased at a grocery store is used to keep people alive, sustained, and healthy.  Grocery stores may also be referred to as a supermarkets.