1.   The scanner is connected to a computer that prints the name and price of each grocery item at the checkout.

2.   But the robot of popular imagination is a machine that shows signs of intelligent life, not a machine that methodically sucks the air out of vacuum-packed grocery items.

3.   Customers using these cards at the registers are rewarded with discounts on some grocery items.

4.   Food stamps are coupons for basic grocery items, issued by the federal government and distributed to the needy by the Arizona Department of Economic Security.

5.   He is developing software that will let shoppers use any bar-code reader to scan grocery items to check for ingredients that may cause allergic reactions.

6.   In addition to grocery items, most Web sites offer customers a variety of free services.

7.   Investors are demanding better returns at a time supermarket companies are losing business to unlikely competitors that now stock grocery items.

8.   It involves filling the floor space that customers first walk into with a large selection of low-priced grocery items, from potato chips to laundry soap.

9.   Kmart said sales got a boost from grocery items at its discount stores.

10.   Planet Organics also carries other organic grocery items.