chain store
one of a group of retail stores under the same ownership and selling similar merchandise.
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How to use chain store in a sentence
Next time you go to a mall or a large chain store, such as Walmart, take a look around.
Stores and malls buy into ponds and rain gardens for flood control | Bethany Brookshire | August 19, 2021 | Science News For StudentsParis credits a similar program in the 2000s with saving local amenities and stemming the rise of chain stores in its center.
Can Barcelona Fix Its Love-Hate Relationship With Tourists After the Pandemic? | Ciara Nugent | June 9, 2021 | TimeThe memo also reveals a shrinking lead for Walmart over Instacart, the online grocery company whose contractors shop for orders at partner grocery chain stores and deliver them to customer doors that same day.
A leaked Walmart memo highlights the daunting challenges facing the world’s largest retailer | Jason Del Rey | May 7, 2021 | VoxOur sleek smartphones, sterile chain stores and clean modern spaces tell lies of austerity.
Baltimore exhibition of outsider art celebrates nature’s ‘excess’ with a wake-up call about pollution | Kelsey Ables | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostIn fact, Daunt’s whole strategy, which relies on localizing the content of chain stores and making books easier to browse, seems right out of the 1990s.
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.
Janna Ryan's Discount Style: Two Talbots Dresses at The Republican National Convention | Isabel Wilkinson | August 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTCarole 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.
All About Coffee | William H. UkersThen he had told me that the chain-store people had made him an offer, and he went to work in their Hartford store.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant | Harold Whitehead"I should have thought there were sufficient chain-store magnates," said Tarsh.
Rich Living | Michael CathalThe shop sells as its leaders home-made English tarts that no chain-store could supply.
Certain Success | Norval A. HawkinsNotice the places of the big drug and tobacco chain-store systems.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant | Harold Whitehead
British Dictionary definitions for chain store
one of several retail enterprises under the same ownership and management: Also called: multiple store
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Cultural definitions for chain store
One of many retail stores owned by a single corporation and offering similar products. Examples include Sears and Safeway.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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