variety store

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Recent Examples of variety store Dollar Tree is a leading operator of discount variety stores. Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024 This variety stores well Gala: Aug. 20 Gala's have a soft bite over a mellow sweetness. Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024 Pop Art Pop Mart began in 2010 as a variety store in Beijing, when founder and CEO Wang Ning was a college student. Jasmine Li, Fortune, 18 May 2024 The prominent corner store has seen a succession of uses over the years: it’s been a variety store (the G.C. Murphy five-and-dime shop), a dollar store, an antique mall and, most recently, a restaurant called the Five and Dime Ale House, which closed last year. Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for variety store
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variety store
Noun
  • On the retail clothing front, fashion and department stores are experiencing a fundamental shift toward zero inventory models.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC news, 11 June 2025
  • Isidor was a co-owner of the Macy’s department store.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the giant Tower Records on 66th Street and Broadway was as close to a formal meeting place for gay men as a chain store could get.
    Mark Harris, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Stores in Democratic or Republican Counties in America Each chain store’s red/blue distribution.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Participants still run a pet center, but also work at a farmyard with cows, goats and other animals, a restaurant and bakery, a country store, a thrift shop, and Lambs Industries, which offers production services, such as assembling, sorting or packaging products.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2025
  • Estate sales, thrift shops, online marketplaces, and discount stores can be sources of hidden gems at bargain prices.
    Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 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
Noun
  • Details of the negotiations were not released, but reports suggested the discussions largely focused on limiting Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanction relief.
    Caitlin McFall , Greg Wehner , Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
  • The Red Sox and Twins made a late-night trade on Wednesday to bring struggling right-handed reliever Jorge Alcala to Boston in exchange for minor league third baseman Andy Lugo.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 June 2025

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