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What is "convenience store"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
convenience store
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At a convenience store / gas station in Manvel, several people seek refuge from the storms.
▪ Craig comes in from his job at a convenience store.
▪ If the relative robbed a convenience store, well, maybe no.
▪ Price these items in two supermarkets and a convenience store.
▪ Soon, the station will complete a new, larger convenience store.
▪ This when nifty postcards of the planet are available at every convenience store, tourism agency and souvenir shop.
▪ Today, the town has a service station, convenience store, barber shop and a few smaller service businesses.
Wiktionary
convenience store

n. A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.

WordNet
convenience store

n. a store selling a limited variety of food and pharmaceutical items; open long hours for the convenience of customers

Wikipedia
Convenience store

A convenience store is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, snack foods, confectionery, toiletries, soft drinks, tobacco products, magazines and newspapers. Such stores may also offer money order and wire transfer services. In some jurisdictions, corner stores are licensed to sell alcohol, typically beer and wine. They differ from general stores and village shops in that they are not in a rural location and are used as a convenient supplement to larger stores.

A convenience store may be part of a gas/petrol station. It may be located alongside a busy road, in an urban area, or near a railway or railroad station or other transport hub. In some countries, convenience stores have long shopping hours, some being open 24 hours.

Convenience stores usually charge significantly higher prices than conventional grocery stores or supermarkets, as convenience stores order smaller quantities of inventory at higher per-unit prices from wholesalers. However convenience stores make up for this by having longer opening hours, serving more locations, and having shorter cashier lines.

Usage examples of "convenience store".

Eleven houses and one convenience store simmering in that bright bald midwestern July glare, ninety degrees in the shade, ninety-six in the sun, hot enough that the air shimmers above the pavement as if over an open incinerator.

There's an instant of flicker across what remains of the saloon's front, almost like a heatwave, and for that one instant, anyone who had been looking would have seen the E-Z Stop behind the burning Lady Day like a ghost-building or a double exposure, the convenience store also half-demolished and also burning.