Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26064053-20150201053305/@comment-4141630-20151120164552

I was under the impression that the commissary was a  more general store, that sold food, but also sold other items at substantial discounts, such as: clothes, personal products,etc. I heard friends who were in the Army, Air Force, and Navy use this term to refer to items they would prefer to purchas at the commissary, because the cost was more reasonable. I have had close friends in the above named branches of the armed forces, and all of them used the word mostly to refer to the on base store. It is a term that raises a bit of confusion

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/commissary?s=t

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commissary

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/commissary