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My first real job was a retail position at a large sporting goods chain store.
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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 is also a French chain store called Emmaus which is equivalent to the Goodwill and even cheaper than brocantes.
—Valentina Valentini, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2023
The industry kept growing, and the chain stores gave way to the superstores.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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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 is also a French chain store called Emmaus which is equivalent to the Goodwill and even cheaper than brocantes.
—Valentina Valentini, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2023
The industry kept growing, and the chain stores gave way to the superstores.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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Leblanc joined Victoria Beckham in 2018, having previously headed women’s fashion and brand positioning for department store Printemps in Paris.Joelle Diderich, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
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Nearly everything needed to be redone in the building, which used to be a department store in the 1930s, but Buret was up for the challenge.Gay Gassmann, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
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Just enough time for a quick stop at the town thrift shop, which is outstanding.R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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Art-lovers could spend an entire trip roaming the city’s many museums while shoppers are kept equally busy with retail offerings which range from luxury designer showrooms to thrift shops to flea markets.Anna Haines, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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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
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Dollar Tree is a leading operator of discount variety stores.Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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With the sun entering Scorpio, your thoughts, exchanges and immediate surroundings will become top of mind.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Very competitive growers source their seeds from one another, through seed exchanges and auctions, where a single seed can be sold for thousands of dollars, Michael Estadt, an assistant professor at Ohio State University Extension who has cultivated giant pumpkins, told me.Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Chain store.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chain%20store. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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