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Definition of Chain store
1. Noun. One of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise.
Definition of Chain store
1. Noun. A retail outlet that is one of a group of similar establishments having common format, contents, ownership and management. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chain Store
Literary usage of Chain store
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"In the chain-store system of merchandising we see the opposite extreme of coffee
retailing. The wagon-route man features his delivery service ; while in the ..."
2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1921)
"APPENDIX IV THE chain store STOCK FLOTATIONS i. The Development of the Chain
Store The chain store dates back to about 1870. Between 1890 and 1900 it became ..."
3. Marketing methods by Ralph Starr Butler (1917)
"only advantage which the large chain store naturally has over its small ...
It is said that the chain store often makes a habit of cutting the profit on ..."
4. Merchandising by John B. Swinney (1917)
"chain store as a competitor.—In planning to compete with a chain store, the
management must first make as thoro an analysis of the selling field as the ..."
5. The Marketing of Farm Products by Louis Dwight Harvell Weld (1916)
"Two other developments in retailing are worthy oi notice, viz., the chain store
and the cooperative store. chain stores have appeared in a number of ..."
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