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 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 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mini-mart
Noun
  • Four people were shot — one fatally and two critically — at a mini mart in Charlotte, officials said Monday.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 5 May 2025
  • The food mart scored 12 on the June 17 follow-up inspection.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • In the midst of a nearly 500-year-old historic center and on the foundations of what was once Cartagena's first city block, Casa Carolina is a new luxury boutique hotel that brings together every thread of the city's soul.
    Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Nine scented capsule options are currently available, such as crowd-pleasing Baies (Berries) and woody 34 Boulevard Saint-Germain, named for the location of their first boutique, though this author’s pick for home scenting may have to be Figuier (Fig Tree), which smells lush and fresh.
    Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Some say it was first made at a five-and-dime shop on the city’s downtown square in the 1950s.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Driving by a thrift shop that looks intriguing on your way home from lunch?
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2025
  • Shimokitazawa is a grungy counter-culture neighborhood in western Tokyo famed for its live music scene and boho thrift shops.
    Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The department store chain, which currently has about 650 stores, was one of the largest retailers to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
    Mike Snider, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
  • When officers arrived, Crowder had left the department store.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • My favorite stop on the tour was a variety store called Lee Avenue Photo—specifically, the toy section.
    Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 5 May 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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