Thesaurus results for FIVE-AND-DIME

five-and-ten

noun

variants also five-and-dime

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as in variety store

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Recent Examples of five-and-ten 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

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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
Dollar Tree is a leading operator of discount variety stores.

Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024