Crossword clues for general store
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise, and which is not departmentalized.
WordNet
n. a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise [syn: country store, trading post]
Wikipedia
A general store, general merchandise store, general dealer or village shop is a rural or small town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general goods. The store carries routine stock and obtains special orders from warehouses. It differs from a convenience store or corner shop in that it will be the main shop for the community rather than a convenient supplement.
General stores often sell staple food items such as milk and bread, and various household goods such as hardware and electrical supplies. The concept of the general store is very old, and although some still exist, there are far fewer than there once were, due to urbanization, urban sprawl, and the relatively recent phenomenon of big-box stores. The term "general merchandise store" is also used to describe a hybrid of a department store, with a wide selection of goods, and a discount store, with low prices. Examples include J. C. Penney and Sears.
General Store is the debut album by American singer/songwriter Owen Temple. It was released in 1997 on El Paisano Records.
Usage examples of "general store".
Somewhere he had forgotten his gray fedora, and from an Oklahoma general store he picked up a cheap straw hat, the kind that any tenant farmer might wear in the summer.
Eventually, he was brought into another classroom with other management trainees and they all participated in a roundtable discussion of general Store management techniques and addressed specific problems and incidents that were bound to come up during the course of their work.
He guided his horse to the center of town, dismounted, and tied it up to a hitching rack at the Grinshtein general store.
In town a few minutes later, instead of heading as usual for the bar, he hoofed it directly into Rael's General Store and, pulling the gun from its holster, laid the weapon atop the rubber change mat on the counter in front of Nick Rael.
All the air in the general store had seemed to compress and she felt a little dizzy.
As Surrattsville's general store-owners and tavern-keepers -- not to mention Roman Catholics -- the Surratts were not temperance like Mrs.
Behind the general store, an old Mexican saddlemaker was cutting a steerhide into strips from which to make a rope.
That stone barn is being converted into a first-class general store, where you will be able to purchase almost anything you could in Chicago.