Thesaurus results for CHAIN STORE

chain store

noun

as in department store

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Recent Examples of chain store If the thought of throngs of shoppers in crowded high street chain stores fills you with horror, there is another side to London Christmas shopping. —

Michele Robson, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 Spot the landmark shops The crowds at the Meir, Antwerp’s central pedestrian mall, — surrounded by Rococo mansions and chain stores — can be a bit of a headache, but its architectural gems set it apart. —

Nina Siegal, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 There are a lot of places to buy running shoes nowadays—at a big sporting goods shop, at a mall chain store, at an online retailer, at a discount website or at a running specialty store. —

Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2024 The intrigue: San Francisco heavily restricts chain stores or big-box retailers with 11 or more locations throughout the U.S. from opening in certain neighborhoods due to Proposition G, a 2007 ballot measure aimed at protecting mom-and-pop shops. —

Nadia Lopez, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chain store

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Four much lower buildings would face one another across the ginkgos: on one side, a department store and a science museum; on the other, a conference center and a concert hall.

— Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Shoppers pass a Cartier luxury store, operated by Cie. Financiere Richemont SA, in the Galeries Lafayette SA luxury department store in Paris, France.

— Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025