: relating to or being an operation or activity located or taking place inside a store
in-store consumer survey

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The company, which also owns the swankier Bloomingdales brand and cosmetics retailer Bluemercury, barely made it out of the pandemic after lockdowns strangled in-store shopping and drove customers ever closer to Amazon and other big-box retailers. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025 The growth of retail media ecosystems is tremendous as the industry acquires massive amounts of transaction data, advanced targeting capabilities, and emerging in-store technologies. Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 The coffee company has launched several initiatives, like return of free refills for in-store customers and requiring customers to make purchases in order to use the restroom, since CEO Brian Niccol took over in September 2024. Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Walmart does not have in-store price check scanners, so consumers must use the Walmart app, ask an associate to scan the tags, or bring the tag to checkout to confirm the price for tags whose price has been removed. Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in-store

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of in-store was in 1961

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“In-store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-store. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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