Grocery Stores and a Whole Lot More

DeCA operates commissaries (commonly known outside the military as a grocery store) on most military installations worldwide. DeCA is one of the few international grocery chains in the world. While commissaries are similar to a common grocery store, they do differ in several significant ways. For example:

Sales are made only to authorized patrons
Sales are not profit-driven, because the services the commissary provides are a BENEFIT
Most commissaries are organized similarly to traditional retail grocery stores. The functions are arranged into departments as described below: