How to Use chain store in a Sentence

chain store

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  • There isn’t a chain store or mobile phone to be seen in the images.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • What’s the appeal of life with no bank, no chain store, no movie theater?
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2022
  • Chris: just the craziest thing to be like, say, Hey, a chain store is a chainsaw store.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Use that as a strength for why people should purchase from you instead of the big box chain store down the road.
    — Mike Kappel, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The stores are also close to skating chain store Zumiez in Union Square.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • To many Tucsonans, Phoenix was the dump — a sprawling monotony of chain stores, strip malls, and too many edged lawns.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Product prices at many value chain stores come with a brand mark up.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 23 July 2019
  • Why are these people at 79 years old working as greeters in some big chain store?
    — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Carl says buyers should instead turn to chain stores, which don't sell plants taken from the wild.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2018
  • Housing prices are creeping up and the threat of chain stores looms as an omnipresent worry.
    — Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Cobble Hill has been hit hard, in recent years, by an influx of chain stores and the people who chase them.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020
  • To that end, there are no chain stores in town, nor even in Spetses, a tony, tourist-friendly island a 15-minute boat ride away.
    — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 30 June 2017
  • Tourists are welcome here, but fast-food restaurants and mass-market chain stores are not.
    — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Earlier in the month, the chain store will remain closed for the entirety of Christmas Day.
    — Country Living, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Everything is sold out or looks too bland at your local big chain store.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Many national chain stores banned weapons, but at least one—Starbucks—did not.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Many chain stores are relatively new to the islands, and some residents say the state doesn’t need them at all.
    — Zoe Glasser, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • For better or worse, the truth is that most national chain stores do not close their doors on Thanksgiving Day.
    — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In these photographs, a T-shirt from a chain store has the same grace as a suit; a stance of modest reserve has the same gravitas as one of brazen pride.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Even some supporters of chain store restrictions think the current process is too drawn out.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Anna Maria Island is blissfully bereft of chain stores and golf carts are the preferred mode of transport.
    — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Still Here, is a depressed wasteland of bars, chain stores, fast food restaurants, and drug rehab centers.
    — Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
  • But there was a time when the couple grew their local business to 20 locations and felt the chain store laws kept them out of some neighborhoods.
    — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Many mom-and-pop shops closed when the subway stations opened in 2017, leaving in their wake more chain stores and luxury high-rises.
    — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The pre-distressed bomber (above) came from reliable chain store Mango and can be yours for $600, according to the brand’s website.
    — Faran Krentcil, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Total sales of national chain stores in Alaska equate to tens of billions of dollars.
    — John Staser, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • During the review process, chain stores must notify neighbors of their plans.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • During the Cupertino event, Apple played up the many banks and chain stores that would support Apple Pay at launch.
    — Jared Newman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2014
  • Seel mentioned that during a recent visit to Chipotle, the chain store was out of basics like lettuce.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In Ojai, the housing shortage has been compounded by strict slow-growth laws, which — along with a ban on chain stores — were intended to maintain the small-town charm.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024

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