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variety store

noun

  1. a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of variety store1

An Americanism dating back to 1760–70
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Idioms and Phrases

A retail shop that carries a large selection of usually inexpensive merchandise, as in What this town needs is a good variety store. [Second half of 1700s]
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That was 2019, nearly a decade after entrepreneur Wang Ning opened Pop Mart as a variety store, similar to a pound shop, in Beijing.

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Some items fell off the shelves at Will and Grace Filipino Variety Store in Naalehu.

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Variety store chain Family Dollar is reckoning with a major headache after recalling Advil products shipped and stored at the wrong temperature over 10 months.

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It may be tempting to cast that life in terms that emphasize his own humility: He grew up in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, the son of middle-class immigrants from Guyana who ran a variety store.

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He was accused of passing a TSA screening checkpoint, entering a boarding gate concourse and taking a pair of sunglasses from a variety store before he was arrested.

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