emporium

“For whatever is grown and made among each people cannot fail to be here at all times and in abundance,” he wrote, “so that the city appears a kind of common emporium of the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025

Now it's a two-storey emporium, based on Deansgate, with a staff of more than 20 dedicated K-Pop enthusiasts.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

Have you ever wanted to put a little action on a game of skee-ball at an iconic arcade emporium with locations all over the country?

From Slate ● May 1, 2024

Deshawn J. Snelson named his high-end sportswear emporium Hype Kingdom for a special reason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

She held open her bag and had me scoop them up like we were at a fashion emporium!

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The rise of contemporary and then streetwear brands reshaped consumer wardrobes and shopping patterns, as elitism was trounced by accessibility, and brick-and-mortar emporia went from being magnetic landmarks to millstones weighing down the bottom line.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2019

Avila Retail has nearly two dozen specialty stores based in airports, including its Earth Spirit folk-art emporia and the awkwardly named Indigenous, which peddles Native American crafts at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

Not every community welcomed these hot tub emporia with open bathrobes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015

After cruising the shops and antiques emporia of Bethnal Green, we queue at the bagel shop in Brick Lane and buy five dozen for the freezer.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 12, 2015

You write to one of the great London stores or emporia, asking, let us say, for an umbrella.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Once a fringe fixture of comic-book stores and hobby emporiums, a trading-card game has become a powerhouse in the toy industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

"People are hunting out bargains whether they're found in the sales aisles being well stocked by department stores, or in charity shops or other second-hand emporiums."

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023

While he pursued a series of ventures, including an ill-fated chain of massage emporiums called the Great American Backrub Store, his most successful business was the Learning Annex.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

Today, there are eight used-book emporiums in the Catskills town of fewer than 500 residents.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

The dressmaker with her frilly, colorful creations draped on hooped wire, the overstuffed emporiums and their wonderland of goods, the rival general stores on either side of Main Street.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead