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Ingrid Craigie and Gillian Hanna as Billy’s storekeeping aunts — whose worries about their nephew drives one of them into talking to a pet stone – are pretty much perfect.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2013

Bob Murphy was back at the day-to-day storekeeping that, between fire alarms, is the sinew of professional diplomacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the young British iron moulder who had borrowed $1,000 for his trading venture and taken in as partner a cousin named George Washington Taylor, had more genteel ideas about storekeeping.

From Time Magazine Archive

With this successful storekeeping experience behind it, Atlas last week bought another big Manhattan store, Franklin Simon & Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Woddie may understand storekeeping, but he knows nothing of farming, scientific or otherwise.

From The Rover Boys at School by Stratemeyer, Edward