five-and-ten

variants also five-and-dime

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Recent Examples of five-and-ten Earlier buildings on the same site famously housed the Shoppers Corner five-and-dime store for much of the 20th century. Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 The brewery opened in 2021 inside a building constructed in 1952 as an Edwards five-and-dime store. Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 The museum is near the site of Alice Walton’s father Sam Walton’s first five-and-dime store, in Alice’s childhood hometown, which is now home to Walmart’s global headquarters (and the small Walmart Museum, complete with a talking hologram of Sam Walton). Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026 The movie takes place entirely in a Texas five-and-dime store where a group of old friends (among them Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates) reunite 20 years after James Dean’s death for a reunion of their James Dean fan club. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026 That experience, along with the widespread closings of old-fashioned five-and-dime stores, inspired Graczyk to pen the work that would be his legacy. Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026 Back then, the working class community was thriving, home to clothing stores, a five-and-dime, and a Murry’s grocery store. Amanda Abrams, thehustle.co, 13 Mar. 2026 The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026 The 75-year-old daughter of Sam Walton, the late Walmart founder who turned a five-and-dime store in rural Arkansas into the world’s largest company by revenue, thinks the US is very close to that breaking point. Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five-and-ten
Noun
  • Opening in 1951, the Broadway Shopping Center, as it was then called, also offered space for several anchor department stores, along with a Woolworth variety store.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • And that didn’t include Barnes & Noble outlets, college bookstores, online-only sellers, rare book dealers, Friends of the Library shops or variety stores that also sell books.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • While the island’s natural beauty is enough in itself, hotel extras include a spa, dive center, ice cream parlor, art studio, and fashion boutiques.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Over its first year in business, Range Media Partners’ boutique publishing firm Range Literary Publishing has been quietly working with talent to build out its debut slate.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Under his leadership, CME transformed from a floor-trading exchange into a global derivatives giant.
    , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Replace its electronic medical record system and improve cybersecurity, staff workflows, patient communications, and information exchange with hospitals, specialists, laboratories, and other care partners.
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The mini mart gave permission to The Original Goodie Shop bakery in Upper Arlington to use its logo on a signature cookie, with $1 from each one sold going to support Beaver's legal fees.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The mini mart gave permission to The Original Goodie Shop bakery in Upper Arlington to use its logo on a signature cookie, with $1 from each one sold going to support Beaver’s legal fees.
    Julie Carr Smyth, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In a press release, the San Jose Police Department said its retail theft unit was investigating retail thefts of large amounts of golf balls from multiple retail chain stores between March 25 and May 5.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • Appliances Over 10 Years Old Habitat for Humanity ReStore is one of the few secondhand chain stores that accepts large appliances—whether laundry machines or fridges.
    Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • There was a dime store, a haberdashery, and a newspaper; for a while, Sam delivered fresh produce and cured meats by horse and buggy.
    Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
  • During the 1930s and 1940s, customers could find glassware nearly anywhere, from department stores to dime stores and from catalogs to grocery-store promotions.
    Alexandra Churchill, Martha Stewart, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Consider this your checklist when shopping at Grandma’s house or the local thrift shop.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Sacramento’s movie-famous thrift shop, Valley Thrift Town, will close at the end of August following a decision made by its new owners.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The department store had promised to place a new store there until economic difficulties following COVID-19 prompted Nordstrom’s, in 2022, to back out.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The duvet had been purchased in 1992, when Songer’s mother, Rebekah Songer, was 16 and working at the now-defunct ZCMI department store.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 30 Aug. 2026

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