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Closest place to do major grocery shopping is in Bellagio. However, for fresh panini, milk, odds-and-ends you might as well support the local smaller stores. There's a tiny store that sells just enough to survive. Walk down to the main street, turn left and go past Restaurant Crotto. It is somewhere in the block on your right hand side.
Hard to explain how to get to this hidden place from there. I suggest you wait and follow a hungry-looking local person. My sister had told us you just enter the front door and walk through the house into the shop situated at the back. After a year we found out there's actually a regular entry round the back which explained why other locals always looked at us when we popped in the shop via the living-room. The bread is fresh but usually hollow. Because it is priced by weight, there is no financial rip-off. A larger assortment of grocery items (and panini that even have bread inside them) can be found next to Restaurant Helvetia.  If you start to get fed up with white bread or bowel obstruction becomes unbearable, ask for integrale which is wheat bread.