How to Use chain store in a Sentence

chain store

noun
  • Product prices at many value chain stores come with a brand mark up.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 23 July 2019
  • 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
  • Everything is sold out or looks too bland at your local big chain store.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Tourists are welcome here, but fast-food restaurants and mass-market chain stores are not.
    — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • In an attempt to stop retail theft, big chain stores are locking up more and more of their wares.
    — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 30 July 2024
  • Carl says buyers should instead turn to chain stores, which don't sell plants taken from the wild.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many national chain stores banned weapons, but at least one—Starbucks—did not.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • My first real job was a retail position at a large sporting goods chain store.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Shoplifters are more likely to steal from large chain stores (52%) than mom-and-pop shops (28%).
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Even some supporters of chain store restrictions think the current process is too drawn out.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The industry kept growing, and the chain stores gave way to the superstores.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Organic seeds and seeds from smaller suppliers cost more than seeds sold at chain stores.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 29 June 2026
  • During the review process, chain stores must notify neighbors of their plans.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • The stores are also close to skating chain store Zumiez in Union Square.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Even as chain stores have squeezed out small, local businesses, Ted’s Clothiers has grown.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Tensions quickly spiked, as the chain store has been preyed upon in riots across the country recently.
    — NBC News, 31 May 2020
  • The new buildings were branded by banks, insurance companies, and chain stores.
    — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Total sales of national chain stores in Alaska equate to tens of billions of dollars.
    — John Staser, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The honeycomb mirror over the fireplace was an inexpensive purchase from a chain store.
    — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Earlier in the month, the chain store will remain closed for the entirety of Christmas Day.
    — Country Living, 23 Oct. 2019

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