chain store

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Recent Examples of chain store While some American chain stores rely on sameness to satisfy customers, Trader Joe’s has leaned in the other direction. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024 Advertisement Brown’s inspiration is not just from memories of his youth at the chain store, but contemporary efforts like Jack White’s Third Man Records. Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024 All around it are thriving chain stores attracting steady streams of customers in sectors where the former box-store chain was once a major player: Marshalls, Hobby Lobby, PetSmart and Dollar Tree. Alena Botros, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024 These include local pharmacies, pharmacies in hospitals or clinics, or chain stores like Walgreens and CVS. Mark Gurarie, Health, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chain store 
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Noun
  • Compared to everything else around it, especially the anchor department stores that loomed over just about every mall, each Goody store felt like an oasis, an entry point for the counterculture that was just emerging and taking hold of our brains.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Kohl’s CEO Tom Kingsbury is stepping down on Jan. 15, the off-mall department store said late last month, and he will be succeeded by Ashley Buchanan from crafting mecca Michaels.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Rummaging through your local flea markets, estate sales, and thrift shops can produce some true gems in the coffee table book department.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Original Artwork The art section of most thrift shops is ripe for the picking.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • By the late 1990s, both Woolworth and McCrory’s landed in bankruptcy court after variety stores fell out of favor.
    Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Dollar Tree is a leading operator of discount variety stores.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Salem, circa 1955: Before the opening of Walmart, many small-town main streets were home to a Ben Franklin dime store, one of which was under the franchise that gave Sam Walton his start in Newport, 1945.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Werewolf Lawyer has its own distinct look, a pulp paperback straight from the golden age of dime store novels done by Ian Klarer.
    Jef Rouner, Chron, 14 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Distributed free by local officials, supplies are abundant at the house where Sleaze smokes fentanyl and works security in exchange for drugs.
    Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The exchange, help spurred by a congressional committee, mirrored a similar swap in September in which U.S. citizen David Lin came home after nearly 20 years.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024

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