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in-store
adjective
available or taking place within a supermarket or other large shop
in-store banking facilities
Idioms and Phrases
In readiness, in preparation for future use, as in I'm keeping several videos in store for your visit . Edmund Spenser used this idiom in The Faerie Queene (1590): “Then for her son . . . In her own hand the crown she kept in store.” [1300s]
in store for . Forthcoming for, awaiting, as in There's trouble in store for you . [Mid-1600s]
Example Sentences
A record 186.9 million people plan to shop in-store and online from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, according to National Retail Federation estimates based on consumer surveys.
Unmanageable crowds at malls and big-box stores may only live on as tales of Black Friday lore, but retailers still tend to put out heavy discounts on in-store items where they have excess inventory to drive foot traffic.
Target expects to remodel more stores in 2026, and it is also evolving its shipping strategy to make sure that e-commerce doesn’t weigh on the in-store experience.
Currently, Target fulfills most of its online orders at stores—a tactic that some analysts argue has contributed to in-store inventory shortages, long checkout lines, and messier stores.
Starbucks is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in increased staffing in cafes, additional barista training and ceramic dinnerware for in-store orders to improve the experience for customers.
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