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A grocery store is a store that sells food, while a supermarket sells food and other items. These other items are what make a supermarket different from a grocery store. A supermarket is also bigger in size, compared to a grocery store.
Store Size. Grocery stores tend to be larger in size than convenience stores with an average size of 46,000 square feet. The average convenience store is 4,700 square feet -- 2,800 square fee of sales area and 1,900 square feet of nonsales area reported NACS in May 2009.