emporium

He put his usual wares into storage and turned his store into an emporium for Halloween merchandise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

As for the merchandise emporium, well … that’s where the credit card starts heating up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

“Bread of Angels” does take readers to March 9, 1976, the night Smith met the love of her life, standing next to a radiator in a hot dog emporium in downtown Detroit.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025

Have you ever wanted to put a little action on a game of skee-ball at an iconic arcade emporium with locations all over the country?

From Slate ● May 1, 2024

The Potter Palmer & Co. emporium did inspire a sense of reverence in me whenever I stepped inside.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The rise of contemporary and then streetwear brands reshaped consumer wardrobes and shopping patterns, as elitism was trounced by accessibility, and brick-and-mortar emporia went from being magnetic landmarks to millstones weighing down the bottom line.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2019

Avila Retail has nearly two dozen specialty stores based in airports, including its Earth Spirit folk-art emporia and the awkwardly named Indigenous, which peddles Native American crafts at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

Not every community welcomed these hot tub emporia with open bathrobes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015

After cruising the shops and antiques emporia of Bethnal Green, we queue at the bagel shop in Brick Lane and buy five dozen for the freezer.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 12, 2015

You write to one of the great London stores or emporia, asking, let us say, for an umbrella.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Once a fringe fixture of comic-book stores and hobby emporiums, a trading-card game has become a powerhouse in the toy industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

"People are hunting out bargains whether they're found in the sales aisles being well stocked by department stores, or in charity shops or other second-hand emporiums."

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023

Next they tried a block of brightly lit jewelry emporiums, but a guard shooed them away.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022

Aksel goes on to rhapsodize about the record, comic-book and video emporiums he used to frequent.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

The dressmaker with her frilly, colorful creations draped on hooped wire, the overstuffed emporiums and their wonderland of goods, the rival general stores on either side of Main Street.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead