Abarrotes

[poli]

En Mexico, me parece que tiene un significado distinto.Does it me snacks?

[Rusty]

According to the dictionaries I frequent, it means 'groceries', even in Mexico.

[JPablo]

DRAE gives these definitions,

3. m. pl. Am. Artículos comerciales, principalmente comestibles, de uso cotidiano y venta ordinaria. 4. m. pl. Col., Ec., Méx. y Perú. Tienda donde se venden artículos de uso cotidiano, principalmente comestibles.
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(Personally, I never used this term in this sense in Spain...)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

I agree with Rusty. A "tienda de abarrotes" is a grocery store.
In many of those stores, they sell a thousand other items like brooms, ropes, stationery... but people go there mostly because they buy eggs, sugar, flour, cans, vegetables, bread, cooking oil...

[wrholt]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

I agree with Rusty. A "tienda de abarrotes" is a grocery store.
In many of those stores, they sell a thousand other items like brooms, ropes, stationery... but people go there mostly because they buy eggs, sugar, flour, cans, vegetables, bread, cooking oil...

What use do I have for (empty) cans? I do buy canned goods here in the northeastern US.

[Elaina]

Originally Posted by wrholt

What use do I have for (empty) cans? I do buy canned goods here in the northeastern US.

I think she meant "canned goods"....

You are silly!!

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Of course I did.

[poli]

Thanks. I now see it's the equivalent of a New York bodega.
Other words that I saw in Mexico like esquites I was able to figure out.

[Villa]

Originally Posted by poli

En Mexico, me parece que tiene un significado distinto.Does it me snacks?

Hola poli.
¿Alguna vez has estado en México poli? Cuando empecé a ir a México siempre veia aquellos signos que dicen ABARROTES. Vivo menos de dos horas de la frontera con México. Así que en menos de dos horas veo carteles que dicen
ABARROTES. Grocery store mas o menos.

[poli]

Yes, I'm in Mexico. My hotel has wifi so I brought my job with me at night, but now and then I come across words that are new to me. I find the Spanish spoken in Mexico City to be quite clear, but some vocabulary is unique to the area. Abarrotes is a word I find often, and I have not seen it elsewhere.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Happy stay here around!

By the way, for mostly small grocery stores you can also find the words "miscelánea" and "minisúper" (Oxxos and 7elevens are minisúpers).

[poli]

Sí la visita fue divertida y educativa.

A propósito: averigüé que la palabra abarrotes se usa en otros paises latinoaméricanos tambien.

[Villa]

Originally Posted by poli

Yes, I'm in Mexico. My hotel has wifi so I brought my job with me at night, but now and then I come across words that are new to me. I find the Spanish spoken in Mexico City to be quite clear, but some vocabulary is unique to the area. Abarrotes is a word I find often, and I have not seen it elsewhere.

¿Asi que estás viviendo en Mexico? ¡Que suerte! Tu conoces Guanajuato? Fui a la escuela en San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. Tambien estuve en la Ciudad de Mexico una vez.

[poli]

Originally Posted by Villa

¿Asi que estás viviendo en Mexico? ¡Que suerte! Tu conoces Guanajuato? Fui a la escuela en San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. Tambien estuve en la Ciudad de Mexico una vez.

No vivo en México, pero he visitado todos esas ciudades mencionas. Esta vez pasé una semana en DF con un viaje por bus a la hermosa ciudad de Puebla.