staple goods
Everyday household purchases
Staple goods are basic products that people buy regularly and routinely—bread, milk, toilet paper, toothpaste.
The term appears in economics and retail contexts to describe items with steady demand regardless of price fluctuations: Grocery stores use staple goods as loss leaders to draw customers.
Distinguished from luxury goods or discretionary purchases.
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
- bare necessitiesMinimum requirements for living
- necessitiesWhat you cannot lack
- basicsFoundational knowledge of something
- daily breadEssential means of living
bread · rice · flour · milk · eggs · pantry · food pantry · groceries · grocery list · shopping cart · household · commodities · provisions · supplies · everyday · bulk · bulk buy · affordable
- trade historycommerce, merchant, trade routes, traders, colonial economy
- merchandisemerchandise, merch, products, items, wares
- Socialist Commerceplanned economy, central planning, state stores, distribution networks, price controls
staple goodsluxury goods
Costly non-essential purchases
luxury items · luxuries · non-essential goods · indulgences · extravagances
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