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
  • The building once served as a fire department and later a department store, with quirky touches like dressing rooms turned into bathrooms and a basement filled with a creepy doll shrine.
    Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 18 July 2025
  • Much of the job is simpler: directing people toward restaurants or department stores, acting as an extra set of eyes and ears for nearby police.
    Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Indie Store Album Sales ranks the top-selling albums of the week at independent and small chain stores.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 7 July 2025
  • Check your local store Many local businesses and most national chain stores will remain open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Shimokitazawa is a grungy counter-culture neighborhood in western Tokyo famed for its live music scene and boho thrift shops.
    Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
  • The inside of the Nearly New thrift shop in Sunnyvale is a site to behold.
    Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 22 June 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
  • Ferguson says another 150,000 residents could be priced out of the state health care exchange.
    Tim Clouser, The Washington Examiner, 19 July 2025
  • With mangoes hitting peak ripeness in June and July, certain Miami restaurants are offering food and drinks in exchange for the stone fruit.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2025

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“Variety store.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variety%20store. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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