I’m looking for a term to cover the kinds of things that we frequently buy at the grocery store but that are not actually groceries. The term needs to include things like: toilet paper, kitchen napkins, band aids, detergents (laundry, dish), cleansers, bath soap and shampoo, paper towels, trash bags, hand cream, tooth paste, sun block, hair ... Blanket term for things we often buy at grocery store that are not ...

Understanding the Context

What kind of store do you mean? Dept store? Grocery store? The answer may vary.

Key Insights

Also, many larger stores have cashiers, stockers, and salespersons. The produce aisle is usually rather different from other aisles in a supermarket or grocery store. It is usually wide and runs along the wall: the right-hand wall in right-hand–drive countries and the left-hand wall in clockwise or left-hand–drive ones.