Sentence examples for chain shops from inspiring English sources

Does this then entice bigger chain shops and cafes, lead to small businesses closing and rents rising?

Along this small city's picturesque main street, independently owned mom-and-pop stores have increasingly given way to chain shops.

THE CHAIN SHOPS and food courts of the vast Pier 17 Pavilion escaped much damage from the storm and are open for business.

Other parts have the age-old attractions of all beach towns: stores touting floats and kayaks, miniature golf courses, ice cream chain shops and banana-boat rides.

Its streets are not only filled with Georgian architecture and literary ghosts, but with mundane chain shops and modish bars and restaurants.

Unlike the other projects, Brixton is in the heart of London where lines of chain shops and restaurants fill the main street, limiting the use of the pounds.

When travelling abroad, we search for the ancient souls of the cities and are disappointed to come across a yet another Starbucks and the chain shop shopping malls.

On the Saturday of the storm, Jeffrey Zurofsky, a partner in the 'Wichcraft sandwich chain, shopped for food and stopped by three places for a massage before finding one that was open.

In the knick-knack chain shop Tiger, which has charged people for bags long before it became law, I once saw a woman have a full-on strop after she was asked to pay 5p.

The chain shop, named Hwanggumbol Store (hwanggeumbeol sangjeom), first opened in Pyongyang on 20 December, Choson Sinbo, which is run by a pro-North federation of Korean residents in Japan, reported on Monday.

I worked "upstairs" in a grotty little chain shop making sandwiches.