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chain store

noun

one of a group of retail stores under the same ownership and selling similar merchandise.

chain store

one of several retail enterprises under the same ownership and management Also calledmultiple store

chain store

One of many retail stores owned by a single corporation and offering similar products. Examples include Sears and Safeway.

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

There was the time that Graham Joyce and I went to a chain store in the suburbs of Chicago, to sit together to sign books.

The ICSC/Goldman Sachs index of chain-store sales has been chugging along.

The dresses she has worn at the Convention have both been from Talbot's, the discount yet stil prim-and-proper chain store.

Carole first wore the blue dress from chain store Reiss with a black belt to Ascot two years ago.

The chain-store buyers prowling the floor, Bonnie says, are interested.

In the chain-store system of merchandising we see the opposite extreme of coffee retailing.

Then he had told me that the chain-store people had made him an offer, and he went to work in their Hartford store.

"I should have thought there were sufficient chain-store magnates," said Tarsh.

The shop sells as its leaders home-made English tarts that no chain-store could supply.

Notice the places of the big drug and tobacco chain-store systems.

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