Definition of Chain store

1. Noun. One of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise.

Generic synonyms: Shop, Store
Group relationships: Chain

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

chain of mountains
chain of title
chain pickerel
chain pike
chain printer
chain pump
chain reaction
chain reactions
chain reactor
chain reflex
chain saw
chain saws
chain smoker
chain stitch
chain stitches
chain store (current term)
chain stores
chain story
chain tongs
chain tower
chain towers
chain up
chain wrench
chainage
chainages
chaincase
chaincases
chaine
chained
chaines

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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