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also five-and-dime
as in variety store
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Recent Examples of five-and-ten
The retailer started as part of the five-and-dime variety chain that included the retail graveyard nameplates McCrory’s and Woolworth.
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Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Some considered Woolworth’s the first national discounter, but Woolworth’s is best classified as a Main Street, five-and-dime store, with counters for sandwiches and chocolate egg cremes.
—David Moin, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
Back in February 1960 in Nashville, a group of mostly Black college students famously took seats at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s five-and-dime downtown to stage a nonviolent protest against segregation.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
The prominent corner store has seen a succession of uses over the years: it’s been a variety store (the G.C. Murphy five-and-dime shop), a dollar store, an antique mall and, most recently, a restaurant called the Five and Dime Ale House, which closed last year.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
The sit-in movement had been touched off on Feb. 1, 1960, when four Black college students sat down at a White-only lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
Kmart started in the late 1800s as the S.S. Kresge Co., becoming a small chain of five-and-dime discount stores.
—Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Some considered Woolworth’s the first national discounter, but Woolworth’s is best classified as a Main Street, five-and-dime store, with counters for sandwiches and chocolate egg cremes.
—David Moin, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
Back in February 1960 in Nashville, a group of mostly Black college students famously took seats at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s five-and-dime downtown to stage a nonviolent protest against segregation.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
The prominent corner store has seen a succession of uses over the years: it’s been a variety store (the G.C. Murphy five-and-dime shop), a dollar store, an antique mall and, most recently, a restaurant called the Five and Dime Ale House, which closed last year.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
The sit-in movement had been touched off on Feb. 1, 1960, when four Black college students sat down at a White-only lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
Kmart started in the late 1800s as the S.S. Kresge Co., becoming a small chain of five-and-dime discount stores.
—Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five-and-ten
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Here are just some of the everyday items that would be affected if duties on goods from China, Canada and Mexico take effect. Miami, Five Below, discount variety store merchandise.—
Melissa Repko,Gabrielle Fonrouge,Michael Wayland,Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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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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Considered the largest flea market in the world, there are more than 2,000 boutiques here, and they're scattered across more than a dozen individual markets.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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And in a boutique vs. online? • What are the revenues by product type in wholesale (B2B)?—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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In exchange for Kennedy endorsing Trump last summer, says Lisa Gilbert, co-president of the progressive government watchdog Public Citizen, Trump picked the vaccine critic to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
20 Jan. 2025
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While there are many, many models of potential dark matter candidates, many interact with regular particles through exchanges involving the Higgs boson — a fundamental particle that interacts with almost all other particles and, through those interactions, imbues those particles with mass.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The winning Mega Millions ticket was sold at the food mart, 1320 W. Burnham St., for Tuesday's drawing.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
Journal Sentinel,
4 Dec. 2024
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Inside a stadium known more for its flaws than highlights now includes new suites and lounging areas for season ticket holders, frictionless marts and significant food options.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
25 Aug. 2024
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Dana Taylor: Art resembling that created by Indigenous people has shown up in chain stores like Urban Outfitters and online retailers such as Amazon.—
Dana Taylor,
USA TODAY,
6 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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Nubby quilts warm up the bedrooms, a sultry Soane fabric dresses up a thrift shop–found sofa, and an original soapstone sink rough up the new mudroom.—
Jennifer Fernandez,
Architectural Digest,
20 Jan. 2025
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Room, board and group therapy are free, in exchange for which residents work at the many businesses the academy runs, including thrift shops, a construction company and a moving and storage business.—
Jan Hoffman,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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