Sentence examples for chains shops from inspiring English sources

When we wanted a tax on plastic bags, for instance, and the Conservatives resisted, we compromised by allowing a number of exemptions from the tax for smaller chains, shops at airports and, somewhat bizarrely, "ultra-biodegradable" plastic bags that degrade within days (a type of bag that Owen Paterson insisted be exempted, despite the fact that it doesn't exist).

Instead, it plastered its name and the familiar logo of two winged cherubs on T-shirts, key chains, shopping bags and promotional posters that usually emphasized a young woman's denim-clad backside.

Now there's evidence of the West everywhere- fast food chains, shopping mall culture, American pop music on the radio.

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

Spain and Italy have relatively few personal computers or other internet access, and a more durable tradition of buying from local, non-chain shops.

Six major high street and furniture chain shops are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading over claims they used artificially high prices to exaggerate sales and price cuts.

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.

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

These pedestrian-friendly towns, filled with low-rise 19th century brick buildings and non-chain shops, offer a version of village-style living that Jane Jacobs, the Greenwich Village urbanist, would have approved of.