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But his role went far beyond storekeeper, Hassane said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
According to the investigation, a Malaysian man served as storekeeper and assistant chemist, with two other locals acting as his trusted aides.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
The only child of Pieter Westra, a jewelry merchant, and Hendrika van Doorn, a storekeeper, she recalled a lonely childhood in which she learned to amuse herself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Ratnaweera Nandasiri, a 67-year-old paraplegic storekeeper and longtime supporter of the Rajapaksas, said they had provided him with a disability allowance that helped him survive during the pandemic.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2022
The storekeeper took down bolts and bolts of beautiful calicos and spread them out for Ma to finger and look at and price.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
According to the Etemad newspaper, one trader who did not give his name, complained that officials had offered no support to storekeepers battling soaring import costs.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
She makes a lot of noise; she likes to bat her eyelashes at people; storekeepers hand her lollipops.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
Some of the storekeepers died, others left when they could no longer make a living.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2021
She pressured storekeepers to donate additional groceries for the needy, lest she step onto the street and publicly denounce them as “thieving gougers of widows and orphans.”
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
But my storefront fainting spells became so frequent that storekeepers —for fear of going broke, I suppose—no longer gave me anything.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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