How to Use package store in a Sentence

package store

noun
  • So that left me to dig through the scraps at the overpriced (but open late) package stores.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Old Buck must have been inside that package store for at least a half hour.
    — John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
  • My father had only two hours between his early shift at the post office and his night job at a package store.
    — Eileen McNamara, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Known as the land of steady habits, Connecticut has one of the strongest systems in the country for package stores.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The company also owns the package store property, but doesn’t intend the change what’s there.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But Cronin, representing the package stores, said that the idea has legal problems.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, the nips would need to be returned by hand to a package store for the consumer to receive the 10-cent deposit back.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • From the smallest package stores to large grocery stores, Hoosiers were out Sunday buying alcohol.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2018
  • An armed robber targeted a package store in West Hartford on Wednesday night, police said.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The space was originally used as a package store in the 1940s and later expanded into a piano lounge.
    — Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Southern Living, 18 July 2023
  • Join a few friends on Zoom and pick a few different wines from the same brand or maybe have each member of your wine tasting choose a favorite bottle for everyone to pick up at the package store.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
  • Small retail convenience and package stores will be negatively impacted.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Executive director Lance Lively said package store owners are fine with the liquor sales restrictions.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The ordinance also adds definitions in the city’s zoning code for liquor and package stores, payday loan centers, and bars, and changes the definition of smoke shops and restaurants.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Offsite distribution of regular six-packs makes four Fairhope beers widely available in package stores and supermarkets.
    — al.com, 7 July 2019
  • But by Thanksgiving, the first devastated shop, a package store that lost its inventory with water up to the roof, and a nail salon next door both had reopened in time for the holiday.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The larger chains and stores over the last few years have drastically increased their advertising budgets and visibility, while smaller package stores have been unable to match their efforts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • One year ago, however, the river carried enough water to reach the roof of a package store at the far end of the shopping plaza that lost about $750,000 worth of liquor bottles that were broken and covered in mud.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In Massachusetts, the initiative faces opposition from some package store owners, who argue that allowing restaurants to keep selling takeout cocktails could erode their businesses.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
  • Homewood police say Amanda Bivens, 40, was inside the Marco Xpress package store when officers received an anonymous tip that the robbery suspect was there.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • So when the supermarket industry raised the prospect of another ballot question in 2011, the package stores and their allies in the alcohol distribution industry quickly reached a truce.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In Alaska, alcohol licenses are limited by population, with one bar, package store, brewery, winery and distillery for every 3,000 people.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission and Boston Licensing Board have also committed to working with Boston Police, bars and package stores to prevent underage booze sales this weekend, the letter states.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026

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