storekeeper
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He was born on Sept. 11, 1921 to Lebanese immigrant parents and raised in Beckley, W. Va., a coal town where his father worked as a storekeeper and miner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to the investigation, a Malaysian man served as storekeeper and assistant chemist, with two other locals acting as his trusted aides.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
In Ghana he worked as a petrol pump attendant and a storekeeper.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
The only child of Pieter Westra, a jewelry merchant, and Hendrika van Doorn, a storekeeper, she recalled a lonely childhood in which she learned to amuse herself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
The storekeeper leaned back, folding his arms, and stared sideways out the front window, faintly whistling a tune.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
According to the Etemad newspaper, one trader who did not give his name, complained that officials had offered no support to storekeepers battling soaring import costs.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
Some of the storekeepers died, others left when they could no longer make a living.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2021
She pressured storekeepers to donate additional groceries for the needy, lest she step onto the street and publicly denounce them as “thieving gougers of widows and orphans.”
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
And these workers in turn needed schoolteachers, storekeepers and doctors.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
But my storefront fainting spells became so frequent that storekeepers —for fear of going broke, I suppose—no longer gave me anything.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
