Choosing the right category
Grocery products belong under Grocery & Food. Filing food under Home & Kitchen hides it from customers who are shopping for groceries, and it gives you the wrong fields — you would be asked for a colour instead of a weight.
How grocery products vary
Grocery items vary by how much is in the pack, not by colour or size. Choose the measure that matches how you actually sell it.
| Sold by | Use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | Net weight | Rice 1 kg / 5 kg — nuts 250 g / 500 g |
| Volume | Net volume | Olive oil 500 ml / 1 L — water 330 ml |
| Multipack | Pack of | Soft drink 330 ml, pack of 6 / 24 |
| Variety | Flavour | Almonds raw / roasted / salted |
A product is sold by weight or by volume, never both. The store will not let you list the same bottle under two different measures, because customers could not compare the prices.
Food safety fields
Allergen information is a safety disclosure. Choose from the list rather than typing it into the description — a customer filtering for "nut-free" will never see free text.
Coffee is the one exception
Coffee can vary three ways at once — weight, roast and grind — because that is how coffee is genuinely sold. Most grocery products use two.