Tiene leche?

careful! it doesn’t mean “got milk?” as in the ad campaign.

nor does it mean “do you(the store) have milk? that’s an american idiom.

to see if a shop with a spanish-speaking proprietor has milk for sale, ask “hay leche?” (aye lay-chay?) “hay,” (pr-n. like long “i” in english”) plus the word of which you seek, is very useful to ask: is it here? or are they here?

if the person behind the counter is a pregnant female, asking “tiene leche?” would mean “do you have breast milk?” it implies that anyway if one is strictly literal.

say “hay leche?”
customer, wanting a liter of milk: “tiene leche?”

clerk, a young pregnant women, blushes and says, “no se.” (i don’t know.)

customer does the right thing on the rebound: “hay leche en esta bodega” (“is there milk to be had in this shop?”)
–proprietress: “si, sen~or. alli! alli (ay-yee)!. “yes, sir, over there! over there!”

note from contributor: is there a macro-less way on a keyboard to simulate upside-down exclamation marks and question marks?