corner shop

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corner shop

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Such shops were traditionally built on street corners at the end of rows of terraced houses.

noun corner shops

UK A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of everyday items and is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers. After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.
Similar: minimart, newsagent, convenience store, c-store, 7-Eleven, corner store, variety store, dépanneur, milk bar, dairy, superette, minimarket

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@misc{corner_shop_2026,
  title = {corner shop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corner%20shop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}