Definition of VARIETY STORE
- ️Mon Feb 10 2025
: a retail store that carries a wide variety of merchandise especially of low unit value
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Going back in time, most Minnesota small towns shared similarities, including schools, drug stores, variety stores, cafes, churches, hardware stores, bars, baseball fields, gas stations, volunteer fire departments, American Legions and local newspapers.
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Tom Redman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Here are just some of the everyday items that would be affected if duties on goods from China, Canada and Mexico take effect.
Miami, Five Below, discount variety store merchandise.
—Melissa Repko,gabrielle Fonrouge,michael Wayland,amelia Lucas, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
By the late 1990s, both Woolworth and McCrory’s landed in bankruptcy court after variety stores fell out of favor.
—Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Dollar Tree is a leading operator of discount variety stores.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1768, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of variety store was in 1768
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“Variety store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/variety%20store. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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