mini-mart

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Recent Examples of mini-mart 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 Amanda had started working again, running a mini-mart across from a hotel in the center of town. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mini-mart
Noun
  • The sprawling chain of gas stations/convenience stores/mega marts that boast the best kolaches, tasty barbecue, and cleanest restrooms in the country is a fixture in the South.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Like the Berlinale, Green Visions also has its own market, albeit a farmers’ market rather than a film mart.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For a boutique resort experience with Old Florida flair, opt for Grassy Flats Resort & Beach Club, which has three separate buildings, a rooftop cocktail lounge, beachside tiki bar, and oceanfront restaurant.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The boutique resort is like nowhere else on the island, balancing classic Aruban charm with luxury level amenities.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the giant Tower Records on 66th Street and Broadway was as close to a formal meeting place for gay men as a chain store could get.
    Mark Harris, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Stores in Democratic or Republican Counties in America Each chain store’s red/blue distribution.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The location was formerly home to a dry cleaners in a building that also held a supermarket, a pharmacy and a five-and-dime store.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The casualties of the times — a historic farm property, an independent pharmacy, an old-school five-and-dime — got their due in her column.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe some plates and cutlery could go to a thrift shop, and some furniture.
    Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Pegasus Creative Reuse is part thrift shop, part art supply store and part scavenger hunt.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • To explain his approach to tariffs, Trump favors a metaphor—the U.S. as the world’s department store.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Then, in 1982, a group of investors bought a total of six Ross department stores and converted them to the Ross Dress For Less off-price format, Ross Stores Inc. said on its website.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Werewolf Lawyer has its own distinct look, a pulp paperback straight from the golden age of dime store novels done by Ian Klarer.
    Jef Rouner, Chron, 14 Sep. 2024

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“Mini-mart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mini-mart. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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