chain store
Example Sentences
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Products at the new store should be less—or at least no more expensive—than at the chain stores, city officials say.
The diplomat added that back home, “international supermarkets, chain stores can be seen everywhere in China and we welcome more to come.”
From Seattle Times
“The destruction of the big combines and chain stores had brought individuality back to English life,” he writes.
From Washington Post
The idea that chain stores are all more or less alike, affirming that everyone at any location is part of the same consumer zeitgeist, is the heart of their appeal.
From Los Angeles Times
As Waldenbooks and other impersonal chain stores opened in malls around the Denver area, the Tattered Cover offered personal service from well-read employees fiercely loyal to books and Ms. Meskis.
From Washington Post
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