Thesaurus results for FIVE-AND-DIME

five-and-ten

noun

variants also five-and-dime

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as in variety store

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Recent Examples of five-and-ten The retailer started as part of the five-and-dime variety chain that included the retail graveyard nameplates McCrory’s and Woolworth. —

Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019 Some considered Woolworth’s the first national discounter, but Woolworth’s is best classified as a Main Street, five-and-dime store, with counters for sandwiches and chocolate egg cremes. —

David Moin, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024 Back in February 1960 in Nashville, a group of mostly Black college students famously took seats at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s five-and-dime downtown to stage a nonviolent protest against segregation. —

Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 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 The sit-in movement had been touched off on Feb. 1, 1960, when four Black college students sat down at a White-only lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store in downtown Greensboro, N.C. —

Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024 Kmart started in the late 1800s as the S.S. Kresge Co., becoming a small chain of five-and-dime discount stores. —

Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023

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Going back in time, most Minnesota small towns shared similarities, including schools, drug stores, variety stores, cafes, churches, hardware stores, bars, baseball fields, gas stations, volunteer fire departments, American Legions and local newspapers.

— Tom Redman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Here are just some of the everyday items that would be affected if duties on goods from China, Canada and Mexico take effect. Miami, Five Below, discount variety store merchandise.

— Melissa Repko,Gabrielle Fonrouge,Michael Wayland,Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025