Disadvantaged shoppers have limited access to the provision of daily groceries because of health-related issues. We compared access to groceries with the health-related quality of life (QOL) for 218 women aged 60 or over. Health-related QOL was evaluated by using the MOS 36-item Short-form Health Survey. The participants were classified into two groups based on their awareness of shopping disability, and a multiple-regression analysis was used to identify the relationship between the health-related QOL scores after adjusting for age. Overall, 12.8％ of the participants felt disadvantaged. The participants aged 75 or over were significantly more likely to feel disadvantaged (p＜0.01) than those who had access to groceries within 500 m, who did not feel disadvantaged (p＜0.01) ; those who could drive also did not feel disadvantaged (p＝0.03). The most common method reported for reaching the nearest store was by foot. Those participants who felt disadvantaged had a significantly low body pain score (p＝0.025). We found, after age adjustment, that body pain might have obstructed the disadvantaged participants from obtaining groceries.