While eating at a restaurant is an enjoyable and convenient occasional treat most individuals and families prepare their meals at home To make breakfast lunch and dinner daily these persons must have the required foods and ingredients on hand and ready to go foods and ingredients are typically purchased from a grocery store or an establishment that distributes foods drinks household products and other items thatre used by the typical consumer Produce or the term used to describe fresh fruits and vegetables is commonly purchased by grocery store shoppers In terms of fruit most grocery stores offer bananas apples oranges blackberries raspberries grapes pineapples cantaloupes watermelons and more other grocery stores with larger produce selections might offer the listed fruits in addition to less common fruits including mangoes honeydews starfruits coconuts and more Depending on the grocery store customers can purchase fruits in a few different ways Some stores will charge a set amount per pound of fruit and will weigh customers fruit purchases and bill them accordingly other stores will charge customers for each piece of fruit they buy or for bundles of fruit a bag of bananas a bag of apples etc other stores yet will simply charge by the container Vegetables including lettuce corn tomatoes onions celery cucumbers mushrooms and more are also sold at many grocery stores and are purchased similarly to the way that fruits are Grocery stores typically stock more vegetables than fruit at any given time as vegetables remain fresh longer than fruits do generally speaking Itd take quite a while to list everything else that todays massive grocery stores sell but most customers take the opportunity to shop for staples or foods that play a prominent role in the average diet at the establishments Staples include pasta rice flour sugar milk meat and eggs and bread All the listed staples are available in prepackaged containers but can be purchased fresh in some grocery stores wherein employees will measure and weigh fresh products and then provide them to customers