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Mon 24 Sep, 2007 08:39 pm
A supermarket is a large grocery store in which customers select their purchases from open shelves and pay for them at the exit in cash.
Is 'purchases' correctly used?
Thanks.
Yep Loong, your usage is correct - even though, logically, they aren't purchases until you've purchased them.....
A supermarket is a large grocery store in which customers select Goods from open shelves and pay for them at the exit in cash.
"their purchases" is ok though.
I believe "pay for them in cash at the exit" is even better, placing the phrase "in cash" closer to the word "pay" which it modifies.
My supermarket (the one I go to the most) accepts checks and credit cards as well as cash. I'd simply say, "... pay for them at the exit."
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