A store is an enclosure for holding articles. It is usually secured from theft. One type of store to which the word is often applied is a store from where a retail business is run, otherwise known as a shop. See Retailer for the main article on this latter usage. The origin of the word store comes from the Vikings. The Storeroom is literally the "big room" (stor ruum). Store - Derivative phrases. what's in store or what's stored up is a way of asking what events are scheduled or predicted ...

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Apex was a retail department store based out of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It first opened in 1924 as a tire manufacturing business. It operated 3 large deparment stores in Pawtucket, Swansea, Massachusetts (in the Swansea Mall where it was an anchor store), and Warwick, Rhode Island. The stores selection was varied, and included clothing, electronics, small appliences, garden department, and a seasonal department. Ground broke for the Swansea on Jan 4, 1984, and the location closed Apr 5, 2001, and still stands empty as of December 2005. The Warwick location closed May 5, 2001. At this time the ...

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The Armstrong Department Stores was a chain of department stores based out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the early 1990s the company ceased operations after declaring bankruptcy.There was only two stores,one in Cedar Rapids and another in Dubuque. Other related archives1990s, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, bankruptcy, department stores

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Venture Stores, Inc., was a former chain of retail stores that operated in the American Midwest. The company operated over 70 stores, and was based out of the Saint Louis suburb of O'Fallon, Missouri. Venture Stores Inc - History. The first store opened in 1970, as a subsidiary of May Department Stores. In 1978 Venture Stores purchased 23 Turn-Style locations in the Chicago area from Jewel food stores, and expanded to over 40 locations. In 1990 Venture separated from May and became a private corpora ...

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A convenience store is a small store or shop, generally accessible or local. They are often located alongside busy roads, or at gas/petrol stations. This can take the form of gas stations supplementing their income with retail outlets, or convenience stores adding gas to the list of goods on offer. Railway stations also often have a convenience store. Convenience store - Goods on offer. Sometimes abbreviated to c-store, various types exist, for example: liquor stores (off-licences – offies), ...

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Chain stores (also called retail chains) are a range of retail outlets which share a brand and central management, usually with standardized business methods and practices. They are an type of business chain. Such stores may be branches owned by one company or franchises owned by local individuals or firms and operated under contract with the parent corporation. Features common to all chains are centralized marketing and purchasing, which often result in economies of scale, ...

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Store consciousness (Sanskrit: ālayavijñāna; Tibetan: kun gzhi rnam shes; Chinese: 阿賴耶識 Japanese: araya-shiki) is the eighth and the most fundamental of the eight consciousnesses established in the doctrine of the Yogacara school of Buddhism. Store consciousness accumulates all potential energy for the mental and physical manifestation of one's existence, and supplies the substance to all existences. It also receives impressions from all functions of the other consciousnesses and retains them as ...

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A discount store is a type of department store, which sell products at prices lower than those asked by traditional retail outlets. Most discount department stores offer wide assortments of goods; others specialize in such merchandise as jewelry, electronic equipment, or electrical appliances. Discount stores are not dollar stores, which sell goods at a dollar or less. Discount stores differ because they sell branded goods and prices vary widely between different products. Discount department stores are more popular in the United States than ...

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Boasting 8,058 convenience stores in an area of 35,980 km² and a population of 22.9 million, Taiwan has the Asia Pacific’s and perhaps the world’s highest density of convenience stores per person: one store per 2,800 people or .000357 stores per person (2005 ACNielsen ShopperTrends). With 3680 7-Eleven stores, Taiwan also has the world’s highest density of 7-Elevens per person: one store per 6200 people or .000161 stores per person (International Licensing page of 7-Eleven website). In Taipei, it is not unusual to see two 7-Elevens across the street ...

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A Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey was the primary setting for the movie Clerks. Other films with convenience stores include Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss (1995) with a powerful performance by Amanda Plummer as a demented killer of convenience store clerks. In George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1988), remade in 1993, a woman is abducted at a roadside convenience store while her husband waits outside in the parking lot. Apu, a character in The Simpsons, runs a local Kwik-E-Mart. In Dennis Etchison ...

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Department store - Australia. Although there were a number of depertment stores in Australia for much of the 20th Century, today Myer and David Jones, located nationally, are practically the national deparment stores duopoly in Australia. Other retails chain stores such as Target, Kmart and Big W also located nationally are considered to be Australia's bargain department stores. Most department stores in Australia have their own credit card companies, each having their own benefits while the bargain department st ...

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Convenience store - North America. 7-Eleven ampm at ARCO gas stations. Allsup's A-Plus at Sunoco gas stations. Beckers Milk, Mike's Mart, Daisy Mart Casey's General Stores Circle K Co-Go's Cumberland Farms Famima!! (FamilyMart) Golden Gallon Kum & Go Kwik-E-Mart (fictional) convenience store on The Simpsons. Kwik Shop, a division of Kroger Loaf'n Jug, a division of Kroger< ...

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Along with those mentioned, companies such as Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Coca-Cola have plans for paid services as well. Online music store - tapping into new MUSIC. With the birth of the internet consumer market it is possible for smaller music acts to distribute their releases worldwide via mailorder internet "stores". A good example being [http://www.tapintomusic.com tap into MUSIC, who ...

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Convenience store - North America. 7-Eleven ampm at ARCO gas stations. Allsup's A-Plus at Sunoco gas stations. Beckers Milk, Mike's Mart, Daisy Mart Casey's General Stores Circle K GetGo, a division of Giant Eagle formerly Co-Go's Cumberland Farms Famima!! (FamilyMart) Golden Gallon Kum & Go Kwik-E-Mart (fictional) convenience store on The Simpsons. Kwik Shop, a division of Kroger< ...

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Department store - Australia. Although there were a number of depertment stores in Australia for much of the 20th Century, today Myer and David Jones, located nationally, are practically the national deparment stores duopoly in Australia. Other retails chain stores such as Target, Kmart and Big W also located nationally are considered to be Australia's bargin department stores. Most department stores in Australia have their own credit card companies, each having their own benefits while the bargin department stor ...

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Hudson's Bay Company in Canada was the first store to include departments, however by modern standards it would not be considered a department store because of the size and range of items that were stocked. The first true department store was founded by Aristide Boucicaut in Paris. He founded Bon Marché in 1838, and by 1852 it offered a wide variety of goods in "departments" inside one building. Goods were sold at fixed prices, with guarantees allowing exchanges and refunds. By the end of the 19th century, Georges Dufayel, a French credit m ...

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Hudson's Bay Company in Canada was the first store to include departments; however, by modern standards, it would not be considered a department store because of the size and range of items that were stocked. The same may be said about Gostiny Dvor in St Petersburg, which opened in 1785 and included more than 100 shops covering the area of over 53,000 sq. m. The first true department store was founded by Aristide Boucicaut in Paris. He founded Bon Marché in 1838, and by 1852 it offered a wide variety of goods in "departments" inside ...

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Pet shops commonly carry fish for home aquariums, small birds such as parakeets, small mammals such as fancy rats and hamsters, and small reptiles such as lizards and snakes. Mice, small goldfish, and other animals that serve to be live food (called feeders) for reptiles and fish are also usually sold. Pet store - Puppies and kittens. Less common in pet stores are larger mammals such as dogs and cats. In part, these animals have become less popular in stores because some pet stores have received bad ...

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Many of these stores in the United States and Canada are owned by ethnic Indians, to the degree that an Indian owner of a convenience store has become a stock (and often, stereotypical) character (see Apu, a character in The Simpsons). In some urban areas, ethnic Koreans are also active in owning convenience stores. At times, there have been ethnic tensions between Korean-American convenience store owners and African American customers. Such convenience stores had been subject to looting and arson during the 1992 Los Angeles riots ...

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