How to Use chain store in a Sentence

chain store

noun

• Buc-ee's famous beaver mascot likely has one fewer fan after a man allegedly tripped and fell while visiting the chain store, according to a lawsuit out of South Carolina.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 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
• 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
• During the review process, chain stores must notify neighbors of their plans.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• During the Cupertino event, Apple played up the many banks and chain stores that would support Apple Pay at launch.
  — Jared Newman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2014

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024