big-box
adjective
: of, relating to, or being a large chain store having a boxlike structure
big box
noun
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Target — The big-box retailer saw shares fall more than 1% in premarket trading after Barclays downgraded the stock to underweight from equal weight.
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Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 21 July 2025
For example, some cities have banned soliciting work on public streets and sidewalks, while others have come to view day laborers as features of big-box improvement stores’ businesses.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
The rise of e-commerce, particularly Amazon, led to widespread belief that traditional big-box retailers would become irrelevant dinosaurs.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The rise of big-box retail corporations such as Walmart, which were big enough to handle their own distribution logistics, all but eliminated middlemen like the Willises from the cosmetics supply chain by the early 2000s.
—Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 11 July 2025
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Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 21 July 2025
For example, some cities have banned soliciting work on public streets and sidewalks, while others have come to view day laborers as features of big-box improvement stores’ businesses.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
The rise of e-commerce, particularly Amazon, led to widespread belief that traditional big-box retailers would become irrelevant dinosaurs.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The rise of big-box retail corporations such as Walmart, which were big enough to handle their own distribution logistics, all but eliminated middlemen like the Willises from the cosmetics supply chain by the early 2000s.
—Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for big-box
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“Big-box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-box. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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