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retail store

n. a place of business for retailing goods [syn: mercantile establishment, sales outlet, outlet]

Usage examples of "retail store".

Big lumber warehouse with truck loading docks, a cement block operation with about two acres of decorative block stacked gleaming in the sun, a retail store with everything for the do-it-yourselfer, and a clerical office at the end of the building which housed the retail outlet.

It was hard to credit animal deaths and mysterious accidents when people were snacking on sushi and drinking espresso in a modern, well-lit, state-of-the-art retail store in which the newest books, CDs, video games, fashions, cosmetics, and household appliances were a mere aisle or two away.

He thought suddenly of his lifetime of lost battles, struggling up the hard way, carefully collecting and holding on to something, a job, money, his retail store, bookkeeper to manager, finally owner.

Apparently, the place had once been a retail store, part of a chain that had filed for bankruptcy.

I was going to hold up Moraio's, the largest retail store in the city.

It struck him that any serviceman would have purchased liquor at his base post exchange, where it was sold for much less than at a retail store.