How to Use chain store in a Sentence

chain store

noun

• My first real job was a retail position at a large sporting goods chain store.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Sep. 2024
• The company has tried to adapt to changes in consumption patterns by developing its online sales and entering into distribution agreements with chain stores, but has been unable to halt its slide.
  — Afp, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
• There isn’t a chain store or mobile phone to be seen in the images.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• What’s the appeal of life with no bank, no chain store, no movie theater?
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2022
• Chris: just the craziest thing to be like, say, Hey, a chain store is a chainsaw store.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• Use that as a strength for why people should purchase from you instead of the big box chain store down the road.
  — Mike Kappel, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• The stores are also close to skating chain store Zumiez in Union Square.
  — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• The industry kept growing, and the chain stores gave way to the superstores.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• To many Tucsonans, Phoenix was the dump — a sprawling monotony of chain stores, strip malls, and too many edged lawns.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
• Product prices at many value chain stores come with a brand mark up.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 23 July 2019
• Why are these people at 79 years old working as greeters in some big chain store?
  — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• In an attempt to stop retail theft, big chain stores are locking up more and more of their wares.
  — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 30 July 2024
• Carl says buyers should instead turn to chain stores, which don't sell plants taken from the wild.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2018
• Housing prices are creeping up and the threat of chain stores looms as an omnipresent worry.
  — Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Cobble Hill has been hit hard, in recent years, by an influx of chain stores and the people who chase them.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020
• To that end, there are no chain stores in town, nor even in Spetses, a tony, tourist-friendly island a 15-minute boat ride away.
  — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 30 June 2017
• Tourists are welcome here, but fast-food restaurants and mass-market chain stores are not.
  — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• Earlier in the month, the chain store will remain closed for the entirety of Christmas Day.
  — Country Living, 23 Oct. 2019
• Everything is sold out or looks too bland at your local big chain store.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2022
• Many national chain stores banned weapons, but at least one—Starbucks—did not.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• Many chain stores are relatively new to the islands, and some residents say the state doesn’t need them at all.
  — Zoe Glasser, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• For better or worse, the truth is that most national chain stores do not close their doors on Thanksgiving Day.
  — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 5 Aug. 2019
• In these photographs, a T-shirt from a chain store has the same grace as a suit; a stance of modest reserve has the same gravitas as one of brazen pride.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2022
• Even some supporters of chain store restrictions think the current process is too drawn out.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• Anna Maria Island is blissfully bereft of chain stores and golf carts are the preferred mode of transport.
  — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2024
• Still Here, is a depressed wasteland of bars, chain stores, fast food restaurants, and drug rehab centers.
  — Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• But there was a time when the couple grew their local business to 20 locations and felt the chain store laws kept them out of some neighborhoods.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
• Many mom-and-pop shops closed when the subway stations opened in 2017, leaving in their wake more chain stores and luxury high-rises.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
• The pre-distressed bomber (above) came from reliable chain store Mango and can be yours for $600, according to the brand’s website.
  — Faran Krentcil, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• Total sales of national chain stores in Alaska equate to tens of billions of dollars.
  — John Staser, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024