mini-mart

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Recent Examples of mini-mart On the retail side, Little Kim offers a mini-mart selection of sauces and retail products made in-house as well as those from Asian and Asian American makers. Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 6 Aug. 2025 These fees provided high-speed internet, discounts on sightseeing tours and a credit at the hotel mini-mart. Monica Pitrelli,bella Stoddart, CNBC, 12 May 2025 These days, a $300 million prize that once drew lines at mini-marts barely registers. Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 The ReCharge by Gelson’s mini-mart will offer an indoor lounge with free WiFi, restrooms, night time security, car wash and pup pad for use while cars are charging. Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 8 Oct. 2024 Malaysia’s largest mini-mart chain by revenue, 99 Speedmart, listed on Malaysia’s stock exchange on Monday with shares closing 13.9% higher at 1.88 ringgit ($0.43). Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 The mini-mart operator’s tagline ‘Near n’ Save’ is part of a business model that emphasizes convenience and easy access for consumers, said Arun George, an analyst at Global Equity Research who publishes on the platform Smartkarma. Ram Anand, Fortune Asia, 9 Sep. 2024 These foods are already innately familiar to anyone who has ever stepped foot into a grocery store, a gas station mini-mart, or a fast food restaurant. Jess Craig, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mini-mart
Noun
  • The food mart scored 12 on the June 17 follow-up inspection.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2025
  • Maryland Lottery officials are also giving a $500 bonus to the Baltimore food mart that sold him the winning ticket.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Pop In and Out of Charming Boutique Shops A delightful shopping adventure awaits in Culpeper with its array of adorable boutiques.
    Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Imagine a personalized stay at Badia di Pomaio, a charming villa near Arezzo, a city in Tuscany; at Lake Orta's intimate boutique hotel, Villa Crespi; or at Casa Baglioni, an elegant historical palace in the heart of Milan.
    Andrea Grisdale, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Indie Store Album Sales ranks the top-selling albums of the week at independent and small chain stores.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 7 July 2025
  • Check your local store Many local businesses and most national chain stores will remain open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879, the retail chain sold staple items from pencils to baseballs at low prices, often just a nickel or a dime, a revolutionary concept that helped Woolworth’s expand to 5,500 five-and-dime stores nationwide at its peak.
    Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • All of the members who work in the thrift shop volunteer their time and proceeds from the shop’s sales fund the league’s various initiatives.
    Jeffrey Miller, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Mattresses and Box Springs Mattresses are a common source of thrift shop confusion.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Set appropriately inside the creepy, abandoned Sears department store, the carnival includes a bunch of ways to get your kicks, giggles and jump scares.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • British luxury department store Harrods will present a series of talks highlighting leading fashion voices in Shanghai and London at the team rooms inside its private members’ club, The Residence.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For those that live in the neighborhood, offerings at the Metropolitan Bar and Kitchen’s variety store are convenient for those looking to stop in for pizza and beer, wine and other items.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Discount stores remain the most popular type of retailer for 62 percent of back-to-school shoppers, followed by Amazon, 56 percent, and dollar and variety stores, 42 percent.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Soon afterward, cheap paperback classics could be found everywhere from newsstands to dime stores.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Salem, circa 1955: Before the opening of Walmart, many small-town main streets were home to a Ben Franklin dime store, one of which was under the franchise that gave Sam Walton his start in Newport, 1945.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 4 Oct. 2024

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