commissary
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According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
When a man from the commissary ran in with an order to evacuate the building, Blaschum went upstairs to find her flying partners.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The detainees requested a review of commissary pricing by facility leaders, a comparison of prices with prison industry standards, an immediate reduction in prices of essential items and the implementation of reasonable price caps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Detainees also say food rations were reduced, forcing them to buy costly items at the commissary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Before my despair could deepen, the OIC started calling the pro-gram runs over the PA system—chapel run, school run, commissary run, State Shop run.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
What you had in the beginning were these expensive to operate commissaries that were giant, occupying valuable real estate in New York City.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2022
Since launching in Pico-Union, CloudKitchens has expanded rapidly, opening ghost-kitchen commissaries in Koreatown, Long Beach, Anaheim and downtown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
While most commerce within prisons revolves around food and hygiene products, a Prison Policy Initiative report on prison commissaries, published in May, found that digital sales are the “future of commissary.”
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018
They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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