mini-mart

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Recent Examples of mini-mart These fees provided high-speed internet, discounts on sightseeing tours and a credit at the hotel mini-mart. Monica Pitrelli,bella Stoddart, CNBC, 12 May 2025 These days, a $300 million prize that once drew lines at mini-marts barely registers. Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 The ReCharge by Gelson’s mini-mart will offer an indoor lounge with free WiFi, restrooms, night time security, car wash and pup pad for use while cars are charging. Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 8 Oct. 2024 Malaysia’s largest mini-mart chain by revenue, 99 Speedmart, listed on Malaysia’s stock exchange on Monday with shares closing 13.9% higher at 1.88 ringgit ($0.43). Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 The mini-mart operator’s tagline ‘Near n’ Save’ is part of a business model that emphasizes convenience and easy access for consumers, said Arun George, an analyst at Global Equity Research who publishes on the platform Smartkarma. Ram Anand, Fortune Asia, 9 Sep. 2024 These foods are already innately familiar to anyone who has ever stepped foot into a grocery store, a gas station mini-mart, or a fast food restaurant. Jess Craig, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024 These foods are already innately familiar to anyone who has ever stepped foot into a grocery store, a gas station mini-mart, or a fast food restaurant. Jess Craig, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024 Dozens of people ransacked a gas station mini-mart near the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, early Friday morning, leaving the store destroyed. Brie Stimson, Fox News, 7 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mini-mart
Noun
  • The food mart scored 12 on the June 17 follow-up inspection.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2025
  • Maryland Lottery officials are also giving a $500 bonus to the Baltimore food mart that sold him the winning ticket.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Located at the water's edge of downtown Bayfield, the location for this boutique inn is unbeatable for travelers who plan to spend their time out on the lake.
    Katherine Lawless, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Created by the boutique skincare brand Pelegrims, these botanical sheet masks are formulated with English grape extract sourced from Westwell vineyard in Kent, England.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 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
  • Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879, the retail chain sold staple items from pencils to baseballs at low prices, often just a nickel or a dime, a revolutionary concept that helped Woolworth’s expand to 5,500 five-and-dime stores nationwide at its peak.
    Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • Some say it was first made at a five-and-dime shop on the city’s downtown square in the 1950s.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 14 May 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
  • For years, Harvey Nichols’ ground floor has housed jewelry, beauty and accessories such as sunglasses and bags, but in a more traditional, open-plan department store format.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 30 July 2025
  • Parents of younger kids often shop at mass merchandisers, while those with older children are more likely to visit sporting goods, electronics, or department stores.
    Naveen Jaggi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Discount stores remain the most popular type of retailer for 62 percent of back-to-school shoppers, followed by Amazon, 56 percent, and dollar and variety stores, 42 percent.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 23 July 2025
  • My favorite stop on the tour was a variety store called Lee Avenue Photo—specifically, the toy section.
    Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 5 May 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

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