chain store

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Recent Examples of chain store Other chain stores have recently announced closures, including Walgreens, which shut stores in Aurora and Denver in 2024. Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2025 Among students shopping in-store, 60 percent plan to shop at mass merchants, and 52 percent plan to visit department/chain stores, followed by 51 percent who expect to shop at off-price stores and specialty shops (47 percent). Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 25 July 2024 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 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 See All Example Sentences for chain store
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chain store
Noun
  • Belk bankruptcy and debts The Belk family sold its department store chain to private equity firm Sycamore Partners for $3 billion in December 2015.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Faizon is perhaps best known for playing the manager of fictional department store Gimbels in 2003's Elf.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • It is said to not judge a book by its cover and staff at a thrift shop in Casper, Wyoming, can attest to that saying.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Ben Rowe, now 27, spent weekends of his youth with his mother and grandmother rummaging through thrift shops looking for a good deal.
    Caleb Mezzy, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Going back in time, most Minnesota small towns shared similarities, including schools, drug stores, variety stores, cafes, churches, hardware stores, bars, baseball fields, gas stations, volunteer fire departments, American Legions and local newspapers.
    Tom Redman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
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
  • In the current funding cycle, landowners in Fisher's irrigation district alone are getting about $40 million in exchange for cutting back on their water use.
    Alex Hager, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Sneed -- who received a life sentence in exchange for testifying against Glossip -- had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and been taking psychiatric medication, but denied it during trial -- facts uncorrected by prosecutors who knew the truth.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025

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