the things you buy

These are words for things that you buy or which are offered for sale.

One of the most common words to generally describe something you buy is purchase.

I'm not in a position to make a major purchase like a car.
The finance department approved all her purchases.

The word goods is used to describe things that are for sale. It's used especially to describe things that are for sale and are similar. Goods is used mainly in writing.

The sale of household goods has been steady all season.

The word groceries is used to describe food and other household goods that you buy in a store. Groceries is more common in US English. In UK English, these things are generally called the shopping.

US Thank you for bagging my groceries for me.
UK Can you bring the shopping in for me?

An acquisition tends to be something expensive, and especially something that is added to a collection.

That rare book is his latest acquisition.

There are many words used in business contexts for things you buy. One of the most common is merchandise. Merchandise is a formal word.

The store's merchandise was heavily discounted.

An informal word that is based on the word merchandise, and which refers especially to things that a band or artist has for sale, is merch.

You can buy our CDs and other merch at the table in the back.

A product is something that a company or industry makes to sell. Sometimes, and especially when modified by words like dairy, animal, or agricultural, it can refer to types of things that are grown or farmed to be sold.

One of the company's products was recalled for contamination.
They had a diverse product line.
I'm trying to stay away from dairy products.
They sell everything from agricultural products to children's toys.

You can call the products that a company makes and sells its wares. Wares is always used in the plural, and it is more informal than product or merchandise.

The company didn't do enough to promote its wares in developing markets.

In business and financial contexts, a commodity is a substance that is often used in making products and which can be bought, sold, or traded on financial markets.

Sale of commodities like tin and gold were on the rise, while stocks tumbled.

In business or financial contexts, the phrase durable goods or, mainly in UK English, consumer durables refers to things like televisions and dishwashers that companies make and sell to people and which are supposed to last for several years.

There was an uptick in the sale of durable goods this quarter.
The sale of consumer durables slumped during the recession.
 
 
Whereas {Notice} offered: sale, buy, words, things
 
Whereas {Notice} generally: describe, common, most, One
 
Whereas {Notice} goods: similar, mainly, writing, in
 
Whereas {Notice} household: groceries, store, US English, UK English, shopping
 
Whereas {Notice} contexts: business, merchandise, formal
 
Whereas {Notice} company: product, makes, sell, industry, Sometimes, sold, modified

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