Finds the centroids of 50km hexagons to tile a bounding box and writes the coordinates to a file. Then, creates a bash script to query Google Places for each point and write the responses to files. (There's some overlap between the queried areas, but it should be minimal.) Here, it's searching for grocery stores in New Jersey.

query_places.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import csv
from math import cos, pi

# API key for Google Places
api_key= 'YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE'

outf = open('njpoints.csv','w')
w = csv.writer(outf)

# bounding box for NJ
minlon = -75.563586
maxlon = -73.88506 # 1.678526 diff
minlat = 38.788657
maxlat = 41.357423 # 2.568766 diff

inr = 43301.3 # inradius
circumr = 50000.0 # circumradius (50km)
circumOffset = circumr * 1.5 # displacement to tile
earthr = 6378137.0 # Earth's radius, sphere

lat = minlat
lon = minlon

# coordinate offsets in radians
dlat = (inr*2)/earthr
dlon = circumOffset/(earthr*cos(pi*lat/180))

print("finding points to query...")

coords = [] # [lat, lon] pairs
isOffset = False
while lon < maxlon:
    print(str(lat) + ", " + str(lon))
    w.writerow([lon, lat])
    while lat < maxlat:
        lat += dlat * 180.0/pi
        print('\t' + str(lat) + ", " + str(lon))
        coords.append([lat, lon])
        w.writerow([lat, lon])

    lat = minlat
    lon += (circumOffset/(earthr*cos(pi*lat/180))) * 180.0/pi
    isOffset = not isOffset
    if isOffset:
        lat -= (inr/earthr) * 180.0/pi

outf.close()

print("Done finding points.")
print("Writing script...")

#inf = open('njpoints.csv', 'r')
#r = csv.reader(inf)
outf = open('google_supermarkets.sh', 'w')

outf.write("#!/bin/bash\n\n")

qryStart = 'curl --location --globoff "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location='

ct = 0
#for ln in r:
for c in coords:
	ct += 1
	outf.write(qryStart + str(c[0]) + ',' + str(c[1]) + 
	  '&radius=50000&types=grocery_or_supermarket&sensor=false&key=' + api_key + 
	  '" -o googleloc' + str(ct) + '.json\n')
	outf.write('sleep 5\n')

#inf.close()
outf.close()

print("Done writing script to make " + str(ct) + " Google Places queries.")
print("All done!")