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6	Sooner or later, it's time for the family to go to the grocery store to get what they need. Sometimes one character will want to prove to the others that they can be responsible and assist them in their shopping, often so they can get something they want along with their groceries. In works involving little kids in particular, said little kids will often want their parents to buy them toys or treats, regardless of how well-behaved they've been. Often, these little kids will wander off on their own, looking for toys or treats themselves, and making a mess of the store along the way, intentional or not. May occasionally see their {{teachers\|OutOfSchool}} and/or their [[VillainsOutShopping archnemeses]] on the way. Whatever the situation, [[PlayedForLaughs hilarity usually ensues]].
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8	Compare ShoppingMontage for clothes and apparel.
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15	* A commercial for [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer batteries]] starts out looking like a commercial for a grocery store, where the announcer describes it as specializing in great prices and old-fashioned friendly service. The Energizer Bunny [[CommercialSwitcheroo interrupts the commercial]] by marching across the counter of the store's deli section as a worker there is about to give some sliced meat to an elderly couple.
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19	* Part of one chapter in Yumi Unita's manga ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' has Daikichi and Rin shopping in a supermarket. While Daikichi focuses on stocking up on essential foodstuffs, he discovers that Rin has wandered off, distracted from Daikichi's side by the colorful, splashy boxes of breakfast cereal. While Daikichi is displeased that Rin had abandoned him, he also sees that marketing gimmicks that he has learned to ignore greatly sway impressionable children. Ultimately, he decides to buy a box so that Rin will discover the stuff is nothing special.
20	* One of the earliest chapters of ''Manga/FlyMeToTheMoon'' has Nasa and Tsukasa visiting the grocery store, as Nasa was completely unprepared to accommodate a second person in his apartment and needed to buy supplies for her like shampoo and a futon.
21	* In Episode 23 of ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', Iona and Hime go shopping for groceries together. Iona is insistent on saving money, bringing Hime to her market of choice and showing her a coupon for eggs.
22	* In Episode 3 of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'', the Cures spend the first half of the episode at the grocery store, during which Rin and Karen bicker over Rin's antics and Nozomi mulls over the situation between Milk and Syrup.
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26	* The ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Superstore" takes place in a supermarket and is about Specs Doc trying to purchase a bottle of fuel, which is Lamput in disguise. Lamput keeps making himself bigger to amp up his price and eventually cause Specs Doc to not have enough money to buy him.
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30	* One of the chapters in the ''Fanfic/AvantasiaProtagAU'' series is named "Shopping". All four main characters go to the grocery store because the last time Aaron left the other three home alone, they broke the house. However, while Aaron is trying to be responsible, Gabriel loads his cart with candles, Scarecrow [[spoiler:steals it and sets the candles all on fire and sends it into the alcohol aisle which [[FireMeansChaos sets the whole store on fire]] ]], and Entity [[FiveFingerDiscount "rescues"]] all the plushies.
31	* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': The plot for "The Supermarket" describes Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino's comic (and unsupervised) misadventures at the title venue, all being of the {{Slapstick}} variety. These include Rhino and Bolt breaking eggs and olive jars trying to juggle, Mittens knocking over stacked cans and pushing pumpkins off a shelf onto the floor, the three pets causing sample tables to be knocked over, and Bolt frantically [[FruitCart plowing a shopping cart into food displays]] and crashing it into the glass door at the entrance.
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35	* In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears Get the Gimmies'', the Bear family goes to the supermarket to do their grocery shopping. Despite multiple warnings from Mama not to ask for toys and treats, that's exactly what Brother and Sister do throughout their shopping trip, and [[PushoverParents Papa giving into their demands]] certainly does not help matters. When Brother and Sister hear a story from Gramps and Gran about how Papa used to be just like them when he was their age, they decide to change their attitudes. This book was also adapted into an episode of the 2003 AnimatedAdaptation, [[{{Bowdlerise}} albeit with Brother and Sister's greedy behavior heavily downplayed]].
36	* In "Don't Forget the Oatmeal", a ''Series/SesameStreet'' book, Ernie and Bert go to the supermarket to buy their groceries. Ernie accidentally forgets to write "Oatmeal" on the shopping list, so Bert ties a string to his finger to help him remember. Around the same time, Cookie Monster goes to the supermarket to buy as many cookies as he can during the big cookie sale. When Cookie reaches the cookie aisle, he eats every cookie in sight, making a huge mess of the aisle. Ernie and Bert help him clean up and remind him to pay for all the cookies he had broken and eaten, and in all the excitement, they forget to buy the oatmeal.
37	* The picture book ''Literature/LlamaLlama Mad at Mama'' is about Llama Llama going grocery store shopping with his Mama Llama and having a tantrum because, like a lot of kids, he finds it extremely boring. This book was also released under the title ''Llama Llama Shopping Drama'' and expanded as an installment of the television series.
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41	* ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'': Jessa and Jinger, when they are in their teens, have to go cook for the family of almost 20 people, and this episode documents them going around the supermarket, shopping for groceries for this big meal.
42	* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': Mother Annie takes teenage daughter Lucy grocery shopping, which is an eye-opener for Lucy: Annie had always pretended to the rest of the family that she hated shopping, but in this episode she confides in Lucy that she actually loves her grocery store trips because she considers them the only time she has for herself.
43	* The ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' episode, "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" has the family leaving a supermarket at the very start of the show. It's there in the parking lot where a TV director "discovers" them, and decides the family would be perfect in a commercial for laundry detergent.
44	* In the ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' episode, "Charlie Did It!", Teddy goes to the Reddi Mart to buy more diapers for Charlie. Gabe volunteers to go with her, having been punished for making a mess in the kitchen and blaming it on Charlie. When Charlie takes a pair of sunglasses when they try to leave, Hugo, the store's manager, who has had many a nasty experience with Gabe before, thinks Charlie is a shoplifter and holds the Duncan kids hostage so he can take mugshots of Charlie. To escape from Hugo, Teddy encourages Gabe to trash the store as much as he can.
45	* While Richie Cunningham of ''Series/HappyDays'' is shopping in a grocery store, he encounters a trollop shoplifting. She informs Richie that if he tries to squeal on her, she'll have her bruiser boyfriend mangle Richie. The manager apprehends both of them, believing that they're acting in concert. The trollop then employs the WoundedGazelleGambit, claiming Richie forced her to comply under threat of beatings.
46	* The ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' episode, "Supermarket Sweep" has the titular characters grocery shopping at the beginning. When they check out, they're informed that they're the store's millionth customer and won a 3-minute shopping spree (which they screw up big time).
47	* ''Series/TheLucyShow'' has one episode in which the bank where Lucy works is approached to grant a huge loan to back an ad campaign. When the bank manager admits that his bank hasn't enough cash reserves for a loan that size, Lucy decides to exploit a double-your-money-back promotion by a brand of canned beans. She buys them in grocery stores in successive powers of 2 (2 cans, 4, 8, 16, et cetera), then returns them an hour later as unsatisfactory. The good news: Lucy succeeds in generating enough capital to subsidize the loan. [[spoiler:The bad news: the canned bean company is the outfit that needed the loan in the first place.]]
48	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' had a two part episode in which the Bundys tried to move into the supermarket because their home had no air conditioning. Ordered to buy something or get out, Al picked a pack of gum, cut in front of Marcy in the checkout, and became the millionth customer. Part two was the Bundys and the D'Arcys competing for the prize.
49	* Every episode of the game show ''Series/SupermarketSweep'' was a grocery store episode. The original (ABC, 1965-67) was taped at selected Food Fair stores along the east coast. The more recent retools were done in studios made up as grocery stores.
50	* In the ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' Season 4 episode "Shopping", Plex is about to make some pancakes when he notices that the fridge is empty and he needs the ingredients to make them. So he and the others go to the supermarket to buy them while learning about food and spills, [[spoiler: especially when Brobee accidentally breaks a cereal box along with a rocket inside and has to buy it.]]
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54	* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
55	** In Episode 2783, Luis wants Maria to meet him at the supermarket. When Big Bird and Snuffy overhear, they want to go with her, and she agrees to let them. Along the way, Big Bird and Snuffy argue over who gets to push the shopping cart, Big Bird tries to decide whether he wants to get a big or small box of Captain Birdflake cereal, and Snuffy ends up getting a small box of Snuffleupagus Puffs (which is the size of Luis, much to Maria's surprise).
56	** In Episode 4931, Alan goes to Sarita's Supermarket, and Elmo, Abby, and Cookie Monster tag along. To make food shopping more fun for them, Alan starts a game where Elmo, Abby, and Cookie need to find three foods that start with the letter C from different sections of the grocery store before he finishes checking out.
57	* One episode of ''Series/{{Oobi}}'' has Grampu, Oobi, and Kako heading to the store to buy some fruit. At first, Oobi and Kako make mischief at the fruit stand, but Grampu helps them learn the importance of respecting other peoples' property.
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61	* In the ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'' episode, "Lost in the Toy Aisle", Mrs. Hecox takes Ian and Anthony to the Natural Food store, which Ian dislikes at first. He and Anthony soon find out that a toy aisle has just been added to the store, and when Mrs. Hecox refuses to take them to it, they wander off on their own, with the store's security guard trying to stop them along the way. [[spoiler:By the time Ian and Anthony get to the toy aisle, they find out there aren't any actual toys in it. As it turns out, the security guard was trying to tell them that the toys all come in the next day.]]
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65	* ''Webcomic/HowToBeAWerewolf'': When Malaya - a shut-in for nearly all of her life due to her fear of her werewolf-side hurting somebody - goes grocery shopping with a friend (although in the dead of night), this shows her character developement of getting comfortable with being a werewolf and pack leader.
66	* Comic #11 of ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', titled "Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff goes shopping". HilarityEnsues when Hella Jeff is overwhelmed by the bean selection at the grocery store, as he can't handle the sheer amount of PRICES and VALUES of the selection.
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70	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' had "Market Mayhem", where the main pups sneak into the grocery store to stop Nanny from buying a cheaper brand of dog food than the Kanine Krunchies brand they're used to. Meanwhile, Cruella tries to convince the owners of the market to retire so she can buy the store.
71	* The ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode, "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E30TheLimit The Limit]]" has the Wattersons go to a grocery store. The kids and [[ManChild Richard]] want to buy candy, but Nicole refuses to let them. With enough pestering because of their stubbornness, Nicole reaches her RageBreakingPoint and wreaks havoc all over the store.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Lindapendant Woman", Linda gets a job at an upscale grocery store to help make ends meet. She accepts a management position when she starts to feel unappreciated by Bob, but the other employees take advantage of Linda's niceness and leave her to run the store practically by herself.
73	* There are two of them in ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'', one in Season 1 and another in Season 4; both episodes are titled "Caillou Goes Shopping".
74	** In the Season 1 episode, Caillou and Rosie are taken on a shopping trip with their mother during a snowy day. Caillou becomes lost in the store when he forgets where the cookies were, but Rosie and their mother find him quickly.
75	** In the Season 4 episode, Caillou creates a song to help him memorize the things his mother wants to pick up at the store. While they're there, Caillou helps Sarah to look for some school supplies.
76	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' opens the episode, "Three Men And A Booby" shopping in a supermarket. There, the Rescue Rangers encounter a frantic mother booby bird, desperate to find her purloined egg. She and the Rangers get chased through the aisles by an angry store manager armed with a broom.
77	* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode, "Operation: M.U.N.C.H.I.E.S.", when Sector V runs out of Rainbow Munchies cereal, they go to [[WelcomeToEvilMart the Supervillain Supermarket and Deli]] to try to get the last box, all the while battling the series' RoguesGallery for it. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the episode, Knightbrace buys the box, with intent to destroy it due to the cereal being bad for your teeth and gums, [[EnemyMine forcing Sector V and the other villains to form a temporary alliance]].]]
78	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' had "Mart of Darkness," where several characters go to a warehouse store. Subplots involve [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] and Jane trying to get art supplies and hunting down a sales girl who keeps avoiding them, [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]] trying to find them with [[EruditeStoner Trent]] and [[TheDitz Jesse]] in toe, [[HairTriggerTemper Mr. DeMartino]] trying to get all the free samples that he can, and [[DumbJock Brittany]] and [[DumbBlonde Kevin]], plus [[GirlPosse the Fashion Club]] getting distracted as they shop for a school barbecue.
79	* Happens in at least one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'', "Gran to Gran Combat," wherein the protagonist and his sentient posterior must accompany his grandmother on a shopping trip instead of hanging out with his friend.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'': In "The Supermarket", Dennis, Joey, and Ruff go to the supermarket to buy some ginger for Alice. Mr. Haskel, the supermarket's manager, is worried that Dennis is going to cause trouble. Ruff makes a mess of the supermarket, and when he chases Mr. Haskel, Mr. Haskel kicks Dennis, Joey, and Ruff out before they even have a chance to buy ginger. Dennis and Joey later [[TotemPoleTrench use a picnic blanket to disguise themselves as a an old lady]] to get back into the supermarket. When Dennis finally buys the ginger, he becomes the [[UmpteenthCustomer one millionth customer]] and is rewarded with the opportunity to shop at the supermarket all month without charge, much to Mr. Haskel's horror.
81	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
82	** The episode, "Coupon for Craziness" has Dexter and his family go grocery shopping, where Dexter inadvertently switches places with an IdenticalStranger. They end up switching back when both parties meet up at the store again near the end.
83	** The episode, "A Mom Cartoon" features Dexter's Mom going grocery shopping and fighting with another woman over a pair of latex gloves.
84	* In the ''WesternAnimation/EsmeAndRoy'' episode, "Supermarket Match", the two title characters take Tillie to the supermarket. While there, they have to find a way to keep Tillie from grabbing groceries that aren't on their shopping list.
85	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E02 Supermarket Mania]]", the Monster Supermarket opens across the street from Gramp's Groceries. Mr. Bagget, the owner of the Monster Supermarket, lures his customers in with false promises of triple coupons, weekly specials, and contests with big cash prizes. Mr. Bagget also rigs the shopping carts so they veer neer the shelves and babies can grab things to buy, and puts reasonably-sized items on the higher shelves and the super-jumbo-sized items on the lower shelves. After a chase scene near the end of the episode, [[EngineeredPublicConfession Garfield exposes Mr. Baggot's evil plan to put Gramp's Groceries out of business]] and saves Gramp's Groceries.
86	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode, "The Inconveniencing", Dipper and Mabel go with Wendy and her friends when they break into an abandoned convenience store, [[spoiler:which turns out to be haunted by ghosts who really don't like teenagers.]]
87	* WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle are at Chesty's supermarket in "Satisfied Customers" where they basically mooch off the wares.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': The short, "Mickey's Mixed Nuts" involves Mickey going to the store to buy nuts for Minnie, only to do battle with Chip and Dale over the last bagful.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': In "Grocery Store", Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy go to Barbera's Grocery Store to buy fruits for a fruit salad. When they reach the checkout line, Doggie Daddy tasks Augie to go get bananas while he stays in line, but when it's his turn to pay and Augie hasn't returned, he tries to stall for time and ends up going crazy.
90	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode, "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E18AprilFoolsRulesCerealOffender Cereal Offender]]", Lincoln tries to prove to his Mom that he can be responsible by buying her everything on her grocery list plus the Zombie Bran cereal he wants to get, all while staying within the family's $200.00 budget. All ten of his sisters tag along, and he has to put up with their behavior, as well as that of [[IdenticalStranger a kid dressed in an outfit identical to his]], and [[ScaryBlackMan the store's manager]]. Lincoln nearly gets his cereal, when his sisters all want to get something as well and fight with him when he refuses to let them, getting them all kicked out as a result. When the girls see how much trouble they get Lincoln into, [[JerkassRealization they realize what jerks they've been]] and buy him his cereal with their own money as an apology.
91	* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' where the band has to go to a grocery store (or "food library") to buy their own food after their chef nearly dies in a horrific dethcopter accident.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailor1960'': "The Super Duper Market" takes place in a giant supermarket visited by Popeye, Olive and Wimpy. It is so big that one customer had been stuck in there for fifteen years trying to find the exit.
93	* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode, "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS1E3RockosHappySackFluInUEnza Rocko's Happy Sack]]", Rocko and Spunky are hungry, out of food, and down to their last three dollars until next week's payday. When Rocko finds out there is a 99% off sale until 12:00 noon at the Heap-O-Food grocery store to celebrate its grand opening, he is determined to beat the clock. Despite all the odds against him ([[RunningGag running into Gladys the Hippo Lady repeatedly]], having to use a cart with three missing wheels, and having Spunky wrapped in a meat package), Rocko just barely makes the sale, and [[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps at Filburt when he charges him full price]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, the trunk of his car pops open and all the groceries spill out.]]
94	* ''WesternAnimation/RockyKwaterner'': Episode 50, "Crazy Groceries", is about the Tikka family going to a large supermarket to do groceries; something that Rocky naturally is unfamiliar with, which causes quite some trouble.
95	* In the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS1E10WeaningTommyIncidentInAisleSeven Incident in Aisle Seven]]", Lou takes Tommy to Grocery World to buy the Pickles family's weekly groceries and as many boxes of Fudgy Ding-a-Ling bars as he can carry. While he adds up the total cost of the groceries with a malfunctioning calculator, Tommy wanders off in search of Reptar cereal, inadvertently making a huge mess of the store along the way.
96	* The ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'' episode “The Sex Bugs” primarily centers around the two protagonists’ ill-fated trip to the supermarket for medicine to treat the titular bugs, resulting in the bugs taking over the store and wreaking all sorts of sexy havoc.
97	* The ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode, "Planet Bears" combines this with WildlifeCommentarySpoof, as a narrator describes the bears' attempts to buy groceries as if they were foraging in the wild.
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