SINCE 1828
general store
nounDefinition of general store
: a retail store located usually in a small or rural community that carries a wide variety of goods including groceries but is not divided into departments
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The businesses that were lost include the Mat-Su RV Park & Campground and Camp Caswell, a former grocery and general store that has been closed for several years. — Madeline Mcgee, Anchorage Daily News, "51 homes and 3 businesses lost in McKinley fire, Mat-Su officials say," 24 Aug. 2019 The property was reportedly built in 1932 and formerly occupied by a general store. — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, "Memorial Trail Ice House coming to Memorial Park area," 15 Aug. 2019 The eastern side of the island, where Faga'itua is located, has nothing but a few tiny general stores. — Rob Ruck, The Conversation, "I traveled to American Samoa 5 times to study the secret to its football success," 8 Aug. 2019 The few towns indicated on the map were easy to miss, though the general store in Honeydew, a blink of a town where a few intriguing back roads intersect, was thronged with dirt bikers on a group drive. — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, "On California’s Lost Coast: Sea Lions, Surf and Squiggly Roads," 31 Aug. 2019 Visitors get to experience a range of what life was like in these parts, from when the mill opened to the 1930s, when Samuel O. McCourtney ran a general store on Jerusalem Road. — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, "8 ways to celebrate Labor Day weekend in Baltimore," 29 Aug. 2019 Grange is oriented around agriculture and includes restaurants, a bookstore, and general store. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "This suburban utopia is all about worshipping nature," 14 June 2019 For grab and go, think burritos from the Big Sur River Inn general store or made-to-order sandwiches at Big Sur Deli. — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, "How to do Big Sur the right way," 3 July 2019 They were last seen traveling south from a general store in Dease Lake on Thursday, July 18. — Emanuella Grinberg And Rebekah Riess, CNN, "A slain couple, a mystery corpse and two missing teens stoke fears in Canada," 22 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'general store.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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