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My textbook (Minna No Nihongo I ch. 22) gives:

> 私がいつも買い物するスーパーは野菜が安いです

_(The supermarket I always do my shopping at has cheap vegetables (for
sale))._

I'm guessing this is ok actually, and it might be better than

> 私がいつも買い物しているスーパーは野菜が安いです

_(The supermarket I'm always doing my shopping at has cheap vegetables (for
sale))._

However when I solved it I rather wrote:

> 私がいつも買い物に行くスーパーは野菜が安いです

_(The supermarket where I always go to do my shopping has cheap vegetables
(for sale))._

But now I'm doubting this a little (such is the nature of the very immature
student of Japanese, without tutor): maybe the -iku actually modifies the noun
too much in the "traveling" sense of "to go", and this does sound a little
off?

Maybe Japanese just say

> いつも買うスーパーは野菜が安いです

Although this may sound like I always buy the supermarket.

I feel like I will learn a lot by just asking this and asking for the best
type of nuance, because noun modification is a little scary in that I don't
know how the end result might feel like.
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verbs nouns modification
Modifying nouns - iku
* 私がいつも買い物するスーパーは野菜が安いです。
  * 私がいつも買い物しているスーパーは野菜が安いです。
  * 私がいつも買い物に行くスーパーは野菜が安いです。
  * 私がいつも買い物に行っているスーパーは野菜が安いです。

These are all natural, and there is almost no difference in meaning. ている and
に行く are both optional. Japanese speakers use this type of に行く a lot, and it
won't make this sentence unnatural or wordy. See also: [Habitual
aspect](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11925/5010)

いつも買うスーパーは野菜が安い is also perfectly valid, and rest assured that no one would
think you are buying supermarkets themselves (unless you are speaking as an
investor who is constantly acquiring companies). See [this
discussion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/54677/5010).

**EDIT:** Of course you can simply say いつも行くスーパー or いつも行っているスーパー, too. The
reason for going to a supermarket is normally self-evident.
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