corner store

Example Sentences

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By the time the celery sleeve arrives at the corner store, it is around 40 cents pricier than it would be otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Stambor said the decision to shut down Amazon Go locations — Amazon’s play on a corner store — as well as its Amazon Fresh grocery outlets wasn’t a surprise.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

Neighbours recognised the first-generation daughter of immigrant parents from El Salvador, as as a girl who would visit the corner store almost daily to buy candy and soda, according to the Los Angeles Times.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

She credits what her father jokes is “an overactive sense of justice” to her grandparents, who ran a corner store in Santa Ana in the 1940s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

By the time we got there, the street was a river of people—an enormous group already!—winding back from the corner store.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds