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Tag: supermercado

Definitions tagged supermercado in the street dictionary.

super

A shortened way to say supermarket or grocery store.

A: Where is my mom? B: She went to the súper, she has not come back yet.

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El chino de la vuelta

A common way to refer to the neighborhood convenience store or small supermarket, which are typically run by Asian immigrants. (In Argentina, small grocery stores are widely owned by Chinese immigrants, leading locals to use this term generically for the shop around the corner.)

Should we go to el chino de la vuelta to buy some wine?

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chango

A shopping cart or trolley used to carry groceries and items in a supermarket.

Don't take a basket, you'd better grab a chango since we have to buy several things.

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Baratillo

A clearance sale or a shopping event where items are sold at very low prices (in Panama, these are often major seasonal events that occur in the middle and at the end of the year).

The department store you like is having a baratillo. I always buy everything at a baratillo, even if I have to wait until the middle of the year.

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Quemar

To hold a clearance sale or liquidate merchandise at very low prices in a store.

They are quemando the clothes at the corner store, everything is half price: That shop is closing, that is why they are quemando all the merchandise

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Marché

A public or open-air market (this term is borrowed from Haitian Creole and is used in parts of the Dominican Republic with significant Haitian influence).

Rosita went to shop at the nearby marché.

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