What is "corner shops"

Usage examples of "corner shops".

The ready availability of alcohol in supermarkets and corner shops is the cause of the problem.

So something else that was nice and pleasant is gone forever because it wasn't practical-like passenger trains and milk in bottles and corner shops and Burma Shave signs.

They advertised that anybody intending to slip through the Iron Curtain should provide himself with Bouffon's Anti-Radar Tin Foil Strips, available in one-kilogram cartons at all corner shops.

Once beyond the walls, he turned Wildebeast westward, and as he passed the corner shops, and the small chandlery, an older woman waved.

He knew the grey housing schemes and the corner shops and the utilitarian pubs.

Homes of families which had been rehoused, corner shops which had succumbed to the chains of giant supermarkets.

There was a smattering of corner shops, where neighbour met neighbour, and information was passed on, and a few small unmodernised pubs, where strangers did not go unnoticed for long.

Along the pavements the women talked and polished the door fixtures, visited the corner shops and in general reasserted, with the men -folk now at work, their quiet and natural birthright.

Fifteen years ago there was a whole community there, small pubs, corner shops, the pottery, streets full of families that all knew each other.

Street corner shops bustled with grey people in archaic clothing: mass production fashion victims filled the mall like so many mannequins of times gone by.