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"general store" Definitions
  1. a shop that sells a wide variety of goods, especially one in a small town or village

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If Walmart drives a small-town general store out of business, that's bad for the general store but not necessarily bad for consumers concerned with price, selection, and quality.
There is also a mini grocery store and general store.
Sometimes the general store would also be the post office, so the guy at the general store would refuse to sell black people money orders or stamps to order out of the [Sears] catalog.
Buildings included a general store and post office founded in 1869.
Fluent Polish, picked up from customers in his grandmother's general store.
In turn, the Drake General Store accepts BTZ at that rate.
Outside the general store, she asked two elderly men about coal.
It opened on Mott as a general store in the 1890s.
The General Store of Catskill stocks artisanal toiletries and household goods.
A general store will even offer essentials, including sunscreen and insect repellant.
He owns the Fancy Point general store that remained closed on Sunday.
It features several historic homes, a blacksmith shop, general store and more.
Business is comprised of a chain general store and a gas station.
But the business actually got its start as a single general store.
That includes series mainstays like the museum, general store, tailer, and more.
Suddenly a farmer had options beyond the general store and the local bank.
They criticized the general store for cutting off the community from print news.
He ran a general store, dressed dapperly in American suits and was naturalized in 1921.
In 2013, he opened the Kailua General Store, a five-minute drive from Island Snow.
"The town is shrinking," said Zonia Watroba from behind the counter at her general store.
There is a small general store, encompassing a grocery, a post office and a pub.
From his father, Louis, who kept a general store, he learned the value of hucksterism.
Instead, the government gave her work running a general store, which she managed for years.
Cook's also operates as a sort of general store, where neighbors find convenience and comfort.
It's located across the street from the town's important general store and pizza shop, Parker Pie.
Henry will soon set up shop, a general store specializing in cotton goods, in Montgomery, Ala.
Bonnie Clement, one of the owners of H.B. Provisions, a general store in town, was one.
The one general store, the Native Store, will be able to order new supplies more easily.
We stop at a small general store on the way and split a sandwich and some chips.
In the opening prologue, we see all the food in the general store has already been scavenged.
Hit up the Moonpie General Store to try it in salted caramel, banana, vanilla, and strawberry flavors.
They were last seen traveling south from a general store in Dease Lake on Thursday, July 18.
The hotel is located three doors down from The Mercantile, their restaurant, bakery, general store and deli.
In Khom Kong village, Wanphaeng, 36, returned to her general store after trudging through knee-high muck.
There was not much to see: a couple of churches and gas stations, a Dollar General store.
When Roddy and Cinnater bought the building, there were still remnants of the general store left inside.
Visitors can peer into the town's abandoned church, saloon and a general store still stocked with goods.
Julie Feiffer, 22, works as a landscaper and at the general store, and lives with her mother.
During my 15-minute demo I found myself in a general store, drove around in an old truck, stumbled upon the missing doctor's office, attempted to fix a broken bridge (no dice—I didn't have the right tools), and drove back to the general store, lost and confused.
The couple competed in obstacle races in Vermont, and the founder of one race owned the general store.
Peabody's formal education ended when he was just 11 and began an apprenticeship at a local general store.
The first checkpoint is Gateway General Store, a gas station that sells groceries, gifts, hardware and fishing tackle.
A visit to the town's general store, for the barest of supplies, overwhelms the family with material desires.
Friday when she walked from home to the Dollar General store to buy a coloring book, police said.
It includes a carousel, three squat miniature air-conditioned houses, a general store and a mock train station.
Percy Nayokpuk, 63, the owner of the Nayokpuk General Store, was not convinced that the relocation would happen.
His mother taught elementary school and his father, a self-taught stride piano player, owned a general store.
In 2018, Rod Roddy and his fiancée Lisa Cinnater bought an old general store in Louisiana for $55,000.
"They're just in disarray and frantic," Adele Tripp, an employee at the Kilauea General Store, said of other residents.
Near the pumps, he set up a shop, deliberately made to look like a family-run Southern general store.
It contends that fuel retailers including Casey's General Store benefit unfairly from selling RINs generated from their blending operations.
What I heard was that there had been a dispute at the SY Wilson general store over in Arlington.
The house had originally been built a short distance away, serving as a general store in the 19th century.
A Louisiana couple bought an 80-year-old general store for $55,000 and turned it into their dream home.
Three years ago, as business dwindled to nothing, the family shut down a general store and inn in Nagoro.
They had a specific focus on employees at Casey's General Store, an Iowa chain, and at retail outlets like CVS.
The church in Hachita is abandoned, although there is a post office and a general store that also sells gasoline.
A few weeks back, the Canadian general store posted that it was searching for job applicants on its Facebook page.
All the photos you see below will by available at an RxArt event on May 6 at Van's General Store.
They did not do much to upgrade the Centerport building, which was previously a post office and a general store.
Hazel General Store on Willy Street carries items such as socks with flying tacos to do-it-yourself catapult kits.
Prior to closing its doors in the late 1980s, the store functioned as a general store for around 60 years.
We went to a Dollar General store in Richmond, Virginia, last year to find out what makes it so successful.
He lives at General Store and Gas, which is easy to find because it is the only business in Lajitas, Texas.
Later, I found him sitting outside of a general store in town, and he offered to buy me anything I wanted.
I'm a sucker for their general store and buy Badger Sleeping Balm ($6.99), chocolate covered coffee beans, and chocolate covered marshmallows.
Don't Miss: The wonderfully bohemian Canyon Country Store, a deli-slash-general store selling everything from fresh sage to chocolate snacks.
For the Drake, which runs the eponymous hotel and the Drake General Store as a retail offering, it's about marketing potential.
He holds court from a rocking chair on the porch at the Chilmark General Store, drinking coffee and greeting fellow regulars.
Crossing the bridge over Carry Bay, I stopped at Hero's Welcome, a 114-year-old general store and year-round hub.
The man grabbed the youngest, an 11-year-old girl, in front of the Dollar General Store, according to Millington police.
There is a small, unmarked general store, a village hall, a pub, a gas station and a burnt-yellow school building.
Mr. Pagan opened a general store and a post office, and named the postal area Valley Stream because of its topography.
Ms. Lebel, an employee at the Dollar General Store in Henning, said she witnessed Mr. Watson's arrest through the store window.
A general store on the access road deals groceries and hardware in the absence of any commercial main street in town.
As smaller grocers have steadily retreated, the drug chains have morphed into a 22015st-century take on the old general store.
Ms. Lebel, an employee at the Dollar General Store in Henning, said she witnessed Mr. Watson's arrest through the store window.
A general store on the access road deals groceries and hardware in the absence of any commercial main street in town.
She later operated a general store in Eaton Center, N.H. Her marriage to her second husband, Grant Meloon, ended in divorce.
General Store opened up in San Francisco's Outer Sunset in 2009 and expanded with a second shop in Venice, LA, in 2012.
While Mohawk may have the range of products to qualify as a general store, it leaves the whole urban pioneer cliché behind.
Wilberforce's Agnew's General Store, which was previously owned by Barker's family, has opened a "Cache Stash" offering souvenirs and supplies to geocachers.
Not to mention her general-store-slash-restaurant, four cookbooks, and a series of children's books about the life of her dog.
Melia, a fifth-grade dropout, drives and smokes and prepares the family's meals straight from the shelves of the station's general store.
He was a celebrity in Keewaywin, which consists of little more than an airstrip, nursing station, school, general store and post office.
With outposts in East Hampton, St. Barth's and at 247 Centre Street, Clic describes itself as a general store, bookstore and gallery.
At the general store, Guy played the jukebox, listening to other black kids who had taken the train North and become stars.
She disappears after helping to organize a bombing in 1968 of a general store near the farm that leaves one man dead.
"There are more of them than of us," Eva Nyvall, the proprietor of the general store, said in what seemed like hyperbole.
Still a teen-ager, Barnum was sent to clerk at a general store outside Bethel, where he staged his earliest recorded swindle.
Ellen Bravo, a director of Family Values at Work, said she was recently in a small general store in Spring Green, Wis.
Picnic in the Park General Store offers takeaway and cafe fare near the beach, Hither Hills State Park, 164 Old Montauk Highway.
FRENCH CONNECTION Then I like to walk down the block to Front General Store and look at jewelry mindlessly, without a timeline.
Her grandparents had a three-story house and a general store, farmland and two garden plots in the nearby town of Ledziny.
The Spones acquired Stubbs when they bought Nagley's General Store and a restaurant in 2015 from his previous owners, the family said.
Sold at retailers like Mohawk General Store and Anthropologie, the line offers staple undergarments as well as swimwear, silk pajama sets and robes.
Bites From the outside, the Pittsfield Original General Store is indistinguishable from the dozens of country stores that dot Vermont's Route 100 byway.
That morning, Kunz and Mitchell say they took DeOrr to a general store for supplies and snacks after cooking up a full breakfast.
Folks in the town of Ripton are looking for someone to buy the general store, up for sale because its owners are retiring.
The evidence of the Tennessee general store is that further revelations about his business shenanigans, at least, are unlikely to have much impact.
The children cleverly respond by building their own general store in the woods, stocked with mud pies and jewelry made from autumn leaves.
Alana: Located in the East Village, it's a sandwich counter and general store best known for its modern take on the pastrami sandwich.
Not true, say these European shopkeepers: Their places are updating the old American general store cracker-barrel approach, while making hygiene a priority.
And we're hooked: There's one planted in a general store titled "Buffalo Meat Webcam," and there's another pointed at the glittering Hoback River.
"The farmers I work with, we grew up together," said Scott Cole, owner of the beautifully curated Monterey General Store (monterey-general-store.com).
The property includes houses, an eight-bed bunkhouse, a church that also serves as a small theater, a general store and a museum.
The next day, hundreds of students and others gathered in the park across the street from the general store to protest the arrests.
Rainy-day activity: A fierce game of shuffleboard at the Y.M.C.A. compound, followed by a "Tongue Mountain" banana split at its general store.
That was until the day last year that Barnard General Store announced that it would stop selling copies of out-of-town newspapers.
"Just another savage that needs to be exterminated," wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store.
His boyfriend has decided to host an open mic night at the general store they run together in the small town of Schitt's Creek.
Brynneth Pawltro, in Rabbit Hash (population: 315), including a visit to the town's landmark General Store (above), which was devastated by fire in February.
"It is no surprise that the establishment is in full panic mode," Cruz told reporters gathered outside a general store in that frigid hamlet.
The cashier at the local general store, Casey's, told us that his great-grandmother was Anna Pavelka, the inspiration for My Ántonia's titular character.
Liyaqat Ali, owner of the Singay General Store in the main town square, figured that there is room enough for both him and Amazon.
And we're about to lose the heart and soul of our community, the husband and wife who have run our general store since 1976.
It is slightly more than two miles from the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio, Springs General Store and Ashawagh Hall, a community arts center.
Available in Virginia at Arrowine and Cheese in Arlington, Balducci's (Alexandria, McLean), Fern Street Gourmet in Alexandria, Philomont General Store in Philomont, Unwined (Alexandria).
We join Cooper and his family at a God's Grace Fellowship church on a rutted dirt road two miles north of the general store.
The museum is designed to look like an early Canadian province complete with a general store, trolley, old-fashioned ice cream parlour, and more.
My father had bought a general store, so we used to deliver the groceries to this big manor house, which was a private girl's school.
When his father put "Limit—two per customer" on hard-to-shift items in his general store in Coshocton, Ohio, they sold in a minute.
They drove back to the small village where Coy, the journalist who had previously made a deal with Chhonn, lived in a local general store.
The general store, the hat, the reach for the gun: the line between the myth of Texas and the reality of Texas is razor thin.
Lerynne West, 51, bought her tickets at Casey's General Store in the small town of Redfield, Iowa, while grabbing pizza and coffee with her sister.
"At first, we were looking at having a general store, or like a high-quality kitsch shop with pelts and belts and furs," Sarah recalls.
In Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, the boards covering the Redix general store list off the names of the storms it's been through in the past.
Roddy and Cinnater spent just over a year turning the old general store, which had sat vacant for nearly 40 years, into their dream home.
Mr. Lasko and his wife, Katie Stiles, a former restaurant publicist who knows her way around cocktails and desserts, took over the General Store in 2014.
And if you want to get your hands on the designer right now, you can check out his pieces at Barneys, Mohawk General Store, and Bird.
You can buy Rose Apothecary's best-selling lip balm at a New York shop that launched a collection inspired by the general store from the series.
The reservation is bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, but in Cherry Creek there is no general store, no gas station and few job opportunities.
Before heading out for the day, hit the general store to pick up bison and elk jerky and other snacks that will fit into your backpack.
Well, the grocery stores got the mom- and-pop small grocery stores out of business, there used to be general, like the general store in town.
Another addition is a "General Store" housing organizational and cleaning products, to satisfy any qualms you had about just perusing the aisles for fun (we didn't).
Located on the Nevada border, about three hours away from Los Angeles, the town currently houses a small hotel, a solar farm, and a general store.
For fathers in search of a clean shave, Vaccariello told CNBC the Whiskey Shave set from Portland General Store will make a great gift for $30.
According to People, 30-year-old Craig Bonello attempted to abduct a 13-year-old girl from a Dollar General Store just before noon on Tuesday.
Seid inherited the shop in 1964, recasting the general store as a purveyor of antiques and porcelain ("I wasn't going to cut meat," she said indignantly).
But a visit to the neighborhood Dollar General store, mainly to stock up on cheaper paper napkins and plastic cups, completely changed the way she shopped.
His father, Oliver, and mother, Georgia, owned a general store that sold food and appliances, capitalizing on the spread of electricity to the local farming community.
If you lived in the country — and especially if you lived in the South — most of your shopping was done through one store, the general store.
Stop by the Mast General Store, which has just about everything you could need — from hiking gear to kitchenware to dozens of varieties of hard candy.
In rural Barnard, Vt., the local general store was the only place you could get a copy of The New York Times or The Boston Globe.
"A lot more people were upset about the discontinuance of the service at the general store than read the paper," Ted Williamson, a longtime customer, said.
Reporters fly into Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, then rent cars that they fill with remnants of Jimmy John's sandwiches and pizza from Casey's General Store.
They stumbled upon the opportunity to buy the old O. J. Mire General Store while renovating another home that was also owned by the Mire family.
The old general store lies along the Bayou Lafourche, a 106-mile-long waterway that runs through southeastern Louisiana and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
It's like many communities in this part of the world: a handful of houses, a general store, a pub and more than a few empty storefronts.
The election was held as a fundraiser for the Rabbit Hash General Store, which was devastated by a fire in February and in desperate need of repair.
His family says he stopped wanting to visit his local hangout/office, Nagley's General Store, although he'd still meow at visitors who stopped by to greet him.
In the 2nd District of Indiana, Casey's General Store has 10 locations, all of which serve SNAP recipients and some of which are located in food deserts.
When Lisa visits her hometown, Evergreen, she meets Kevin, a contractor who helps her restore the general store, and the two find themselves falling for each other.
You can step back a century or so by meandering through their preserved buildings, including a fruit cannery (now a boat museum), general store and blacksmith shop.
Since West's car was full with moving supplies, the pair traveled in her sister's truck to Casey's General Store, where they bought coffee, pizza and some lottery tickets.
The Farmer's Daughter, a general store that sells everything from vegetables to homemade pies to homespun crafts, was started by dairy farmers Jim and Fern Austin in 1992.
Amazon announced it will open a general store in New York City that will sell toys, household goods and some of its other top-selling products, Reuters reports.
Another addition the retailer has planned is the inclusion of a "General Store" stocked with cleaning and home improvement essentials like hardware, mailboxes, cubbies, storage lockers and more.
After cooking up a breakfast of eggs, sausage and hash browns, the family of three took a trip to the nearby town's general store for supplies and snacks.
I soon developed a daily pattern of going over to Emerson's house to perform odd jobs for loose change that I would then spend at the general store.
Like a Westworld general store, the glints of danger lurked around each corner, but it was pretty clear that none of the bullets were meant to hurt me.
They play checkers in the general store and debate issues great and small, until the advent of William Jennings Bryan, the barnstorming Nebraska populist, causes an irreparable rift.
He could usually be found in his office in the town's general store, and every afternoon he drank his water from a wineglass with a dash of catnip.
Having fled Myanmar more than 14 years ago to escape persecution, Salimullah now lives in a makeshift Rohingya settlement, where he owns and operates a small general store.
At a half-ruined Dollar General store on Thursday, residents walked in and out of a shattered glass door with instant coffee, soft drinks, water and nail polish.
Mr. Shopsin and his wife, Eve, started their restaurant, Shopsin's General Store, in 1983 in a grocery they had been running on Bedford Street in the West Village.
These batteries are thinner, lighter, more compact, and can hold more power than their nickel-based counterparts like the cylinder batteries you might buy at a general store.
Op-Ed Contributor Belgrade, Me. — It was a golden day in late summer, and there in my town's general store stood a dozen veterans missing arms and legs.
Near the ski slopes of Hunter and Windham Mountains, the collection now lives in a space once occupied by a general store called the Rip Van Winkle Bazaar.
Either way, I'd recommend a stop at Chez Babet, a country general store that sells everything from flip flops to cigarettes and doubles as a local watering hole.
The only gathering point left for the 160 year-round residents is a small general store that stocks plenty of vodka and a little bit of everything else.
The sound of outgoing mortars from a nearby SDF position didn't seem to cause concern for shoppers at the general store of Abdel Kareem, 38, in Tal Tamr.
With the help of a contractor named Kevin (Mark Deklin) who is also passing through town, she fixes up the abandoned general store and takes over its operations.
Two officers corroborated Wright&aposs testimony that Bryant and Milam abducted Till from the sharecropper shack near the little Delta town of Money where Bryant runs a general store.
The owners of the local general store The Farmer's Daughter can find plenty of help in the summer when school is out, but in winter, able bodies are scarce.
Mohawk General Store features brands like Baxter of California, Blue Blue Japan, Alex Mill, but our favorite item has to be this ridiculously good looking Patch Pocket Italian Suit.
The little town, established in 1851, is a throwback to the 19th century and includes a general store that houses an inn and restaurant, some cottages and several barns.
There, his father was a paymaster of the local police district, and his mother ran a small dressmaking and millinery shop, which she later expanded into a general store.
"My mantra is, 'We can't be the general store that we used to be,'" Stan Wischnowski, the executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.
New York (CNN Business)Two liters of Dr. Pepper costs $1.80 at a Dollar General store in Union City, NJ. A 10-oz bag of Twizzlers sells for $1.50.
The current deal, at a reduced price, includes six houses and an apartment, industrial and commercial lots, and a building that once housed a gas station and general store.
Even today, it's not uncommon for drivers to yield for horse-drawn buggies or to see women in long dresses and bonnets carrying goods home from Whitmer's General Store.
It was still a quaint town, dotted with juniper trees, centered on the general store, but it had been overtaken by a fancy coffee house and a yoga studio.
Under the new pricing, the general store would have had to pay the full retail cost of the papers to White Mountain News, in addition to the delivery fee.
The center of Goshen, a tiny city with a general store, is about four miles away, and Prospect, a slightly larger city with more stores, is about eight miles.
It was housed in the abandoned general store, but once Lisa came to renovate it, the town placed it prominently on main street for all the children to use.
Homesense locations will include a "General Store" that sells cleaning supplies and home improvement essentials like hardware, outdoor fixtures and mailboxes — more reminiscent of a Home Depot or Lowe's.
Fitting in nicely among the storefronts is the Walmart Museum, a 1950s-themed general store and soda fountain where clean-cut young white people serve you with a smile.
At the heart of Blue Diamond is the Village Market and Mercantile, a general store that doesn't appear to have changed one iota since it was built in the 1940s.
The now 94-year-old still lives in the ranch house he built himself in 1961 and has been known to buy his clothes at his local Dollar General store.
Later, in addition to accommodating cattle, mules, sheep and hogs, it also hosted a hotel, a general store, ferry crossing, steamboat landing, telegraph station and stage line over the years.
After breakfast, we got in our little boat — the Red Wedding — and scudded across the lake to poke our heads in at the general store and visit the farmers' market.
In its day, the general store could be accessed through the middle door, while the rooms on the sides were previously used as a pay room and a barroom, respectively.
The manager of a Dollar General store, Dale Townsend, on the Mississippi Choctaw reservation was accused of molesting a 13-year-old Choctaw boy, who worked at the store in 2003.
Jones, 27, was five months pregnant on December 4 when she fought with another woman outside a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, west of Birmingham, according to CNN affiliate WBMA.
At the Tortilla Flat General Store, a place on the Apache Trail that was once a stagecoach stop, you can try prickly pear gelato as well as prickly pear barbecue sauce.
There was the man in the Casey's General Store in Manly who button-holed Cruz and wouldn't let him go until an aide physically moved the senator onto a different voter.
"I do believe [geocachers] will come in [to town] and possibly get their drinks, get their snacks… get whatever souvenir [or] whatever they may want from the general store," he said.
The original M. Crow is a general store in the tiny town of Lostine (estimated population: 209) in northeastern Oregon; it is down the road from Mr. Hays's hometown, Joseph, Ore.
Then walk through town to Sisters Bakery, which has scones, doughnuts and other treats, and is housed in a 1908 building that was the town's general store from 1925 to 1950.
"I think it's important for us to try to stay open as much as possible, without jeopardizing the well-being of our staff," said Neil Hasegawa, owner of Hasegawa General Store.
When a mysterious stranger outside the town's only general store tells him to "get away quickly," he feels a chill but figures he may have misunderstood her because of her dialect.
His campaign organized in unique ways, too, putting together groups of supporters at Casey's General Store, an Iowa gas chain, and at CVS convenience stores, said Misty Rebik, his Iowa campaign director.
Fuel stations, a general store, a bar, an evangelical church and prostitutes vie for the income and attention of the miners, known as garimpeiros, when they aren't working or lazing in hammocks.
One of the family's most recent projects includes opening an inn called The Boarding House, which will be located down the street from the couple's restaurant, bakery and general store, The Mercantile.
Another section exclusive to Homesense is the "General Store," which is dedicated to all things organization, cleaning, and home improvement—making the new store a one-stop shop for decorating and renovating.
In Lima, they feigned Roman Catholicism, learned rudimentary Spanish, and started a new general store under a new family name—still mine, taken from the illegal passports they'd obtained to get out.
The air flow is adjustable, and it folds conveniently for carrying: Tool Box Grill, $125, Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store, 232 Fifth Avenue (Carroll Street), Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-522-9848, blueribbongeneralstore.com.
An eclectic mix of accessories and clothing boutiques, home-goods shops like Sayville General Store and some 23 restaurants can be found in the hamlet, along with a four-screen movie theater.
On a recent morning, she broke away from chatting with a friend to burst into a general store in the market, asking its Iranian owner if he had some supplies she needed.
Sales at Dollar General store open for more than an year rose 4% in the reported quarter, well above analysts' average estimate of a 2.43% increase, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
When they were approached with the opportunity to buy the old O. J. Mire General Store in 2018, they were in the process of renovating another home owned by the Mire family.
They drove to Windsor and stopped at the general store, where they got Salinger's address (according to accounts given by Schuyler, in interviews recorded a few years before her death, in 2014).
Jones was five months pregnant on December 4 when she got into a fight with another woman outside a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, just west of Birmingham, CNN affiliate WBMA reported.
"Everybody knows everybody here," said Faith Gower, a 63-year-old mother of four who runs Hemmingford's general store, where you can have your tie dry-cleaned as well as buy pool equipment.
Like "No Woman," it's a melancholy, sun-dappled bit of country-pop, the kind of song you'd expect to hear streaming from a general store radio or the stage at a county fair.
One day, behind a general store in Central Texas, a firearms instructor in a wide-brimmed cowboy hat reached for the butt of his holstered gun as I approached him for an interview.
"It's kind of an enigma," said Joan Santo, the owner of Narrowsburg Proper, the hamlet's "not-so-general general store," which stocks a range of things, from Italian specialty foods to men's clothing.
Whisk (933 Broadway), a kitchen shop near the Flatiron Building, felt like an old general store with its creaky wood floors and crevices packed with gadgets like onion savers and reusable straws (Mr.
You'll hear about how nice the now-abandoned general store used to be, listen to the dreams of artists and farmers, and learn about how the townsfolk take care of the plentiful ghosts.
In addition to Clem, his gallery of characters included the easily flustered proprietor of a general store and Lavern Nagger, a husband constantly arguing with his wife, Ida Lee (played by Roni Stoneman).
In Tidings of Joy, Lisa is still running the general store, and we see her boyfriend Kevin at the end of the movie when he comes to the Christmas festival to kiss her.
In 2008, an entrepreneur bought a missile silo in Kansas and converted it into the ultimate $20 million fortified shelter complete with necessary amenities like a general store, fisheries, and a medical center.
One field organizer, Conrad Bascom, has started holding phone banks at a Casey's General Store in rural Garner largely because the location was a convenient meeting place and the Wi-Fi was reliable.
Jones was five months pregnant on December 4, 2018, when she got into a fight with a woman outside a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, just west of Birmingham, CNN affiliate WBMA reported.
Around noonish … I said to [my sister], 'I'm really hungry and I need coffee, can you please take me to Casey's [General Store] so I can get a slice of pizza and a coffee?
Fishtail is a town that's not even a town — it's an unincorporated community of fewer than 1003 people whose main attraction is its general store, which sells, among other things, homemade pies and quilts.
During those inspections, it found violations at as few as 15% of the Casey's General Store locations that were inspected to as many as 41% of the Marathon Petroleum gas stations that were checked.
But getting to check out the Mercantile—where you will find a restaurant, bakery and general store—and taking a tour of the set aren't the only reasons to take a trip to Oklahoma.
Luckily a former Dollar General store was available just a half-mile away with twice as much floor area, so Weinheim bought it and began transforming it into the new home for her business.
Ray Standley, 76, owner of the General Store in nearby Fish Camp which depends on visitors to Yosemite to support local businesses, said the rain had washed away most of the snow in town.
Bennie, Carrie and Lloyd grew up in this historic house, once the town's post office and general store — as did Aunt Glad, for whom the past has become ever more inseparable from the present.
Plan A also has creative and strategy firm Untitled Worldwide, branded entertainment and experiential marketing firm Van&aposs General Store, production company Helo, fashion advertising firm Twin Studio, and social media agency Beekman Social.
Although every Dollar General store carries milk, eggs, bread and other staples, the one on Pine Street is one of only about 450 stores (3 percent of the company's locations) that offer fresh produce.
Kristoff Kristoff, raised by the rock trolls, is just an ice collector minding his business with his BFF reindeer, Sven, when Princess Anna wanders into the same general store he's picking up supplies in.
Summers and rainbow ice cream When I spent childhood summers with my maternal grandparents at their cottage on a lake outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, Grandpa Mann would often take me down to the general store.
In 1982, a battalion officer informed Marcos Díaz, owner of the general store in the hamlet of El Mozote, with friends in the military, that the army was planning a major offensive in the region.
A Turkish shopkeeper who runs a general store near the police station said he feared not the police but aggressive North African youths who accuse him of being a bad Muslim because he sells alcohol.
But it has a general store that bakes mint chocolate brownies worth every calorie — and in 21970, it had a library the size of a living room that those of us who lived there cherished.
"A computer can know and remember as much marketing detail about 200 million consumers as did the owner of a crossroads general store about his handful of customers," Mr. Wunderman said in a 1967 speech.
Earlier at the general store, his cousin Marvin Grovner, who at 21 is among the youngest residents on the island, had talked about his uneasiness with the new buildings encircling the place where he grew up.
"Here are some progress pics of The Boarding House, our little 8-room inn-in-progress," she writes of the property, which is down the street from the couple's restaurant, bakery and general store, The Mercantile.
Rick Kettles, owner of the Lakeside Resort General Store and Restaurant, said he had never before seen such conditions on the lake, which is a 67-square-mile (174 sq km) reservoir on the White River.
Consumers were starting to have more options, as chain stores arose to offer more variety and lower prices than the small-town general store, which in many places had a monopoly on all manner of goods.
"I'm a businessman, and I have to stock up on fuel and building materials, and without good barge access around, that village will not survive," said Mr. Nayokpuk, whose father opened the general store in 1960.
In its defense, Oberlin maintained that it was not liable for the actions and personal opinions of its students and its employees, and that it had no duty to speak on behalf of the general store.
This idyllic destination is anchored by a restored Gothic Revival residence that houses an old-time general store stocked with olive oils, jams, scented candles and canvas bags, and a bar offering wine and whiskey flights.
Freeman bought the town in 1985 anyway and spent the next 30 years lovingly restoring its boutique hotel and general store, building canvas-covered "eco cabins" and stocking them with wood-burning stoves and swamp coolers.
"He pulled the wool right over our eyes and we had no clue what he was about," said Raymond Levesque, who attended the meeting and owns a laundromat, ice cream parlor and general store in town.
An undercover TBI agent arranged to meet with Cain and Greer on Friday outside the Dollar General store in southern Greene County, and the couple allegedly accepted $3,000 in cash in exchange for the child, Morgan says.
In America, as the Harvard economist Claudia Goldin explains in " Understanding the Gender Gap ," women worked at high rates in the preindustrial era, when the home and the workplace were often one—a farm, a general store.
That's all well and good if you live in the 1800s and the local general-store clerk keeps a written ledger of your credit and debit next to the register as long as you need him to.
At the Grayson Highlands General Store & Inn near the site of the attack, the owner, Dennis Conroy, 69, said he had just taken in some hikers who wanted to stop at least briefly to reconsider their plans.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — One of the joys of growing up, for Deborah Bell-Burks, was sitting on the counter of the general store that her family owned on Main Street, helping her mother bag items and count change.
An architect designed rudimentary tents and wooden structures for temporary residents, and then came a city hall, a general store, a health clinic and a handful of celebrity visitors, including Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando and Barbra Streisand.
Mr. Hale, 41, raises Angus and tiger-stripe cows branded with the family "H" in this town of 6,20083, sharing the road with a general store that promises "SANDWICHES" and, less plausibly, "clean bathrooms" on its overhead marquee.
Sunday Routine In Tamara Shopsin's 2017 memoir, "Arbitrary Stupid Goal," the illustrator and designer recounts growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1970s and '80s, when much of her life revolved around the family business, Shopsin's General Store.
Wind up your weekend by checking out what may be the coolest general store in the West, the Camp Sherman Store & Fly Shop, which has been a hub of community life here since it was established in 1918.
The son of a general store owner in a small town in Alabama, Mr. Sessions had long wanted to be the nation's top federal law enforcement official or to serve in another top law enforcement or judicial post.
Wang Qicai, 39, a farmer who also runs a small general store out of his home in the cave, said young people may move out to become migrant workers, but many end up returning to have their families.
Available in Maryland at Bradley Food & Beverage in Bethesda; Downtown Crown Wine and Beer in Gaithersburg; Fenwick Beer & Wine and Parkway Deli & Restaurant in Silver Spring; Franklins Restaurant, Brewery and General Store in Hyattsville; Grosvenor Market in Rockville.
Stephenson told CNN that park service workers were inadequately prepared to handle the radioactive material, moving the buckets wearing gardening gloves purchased at a general store, and using mop handles to lift the buckets into pickups for transport.
We settled on a visit to a tiny general store, Kiosco Los Sobrinos, where the owner showed us a traditional embroidered dress she was making and sold me a glass bottle of Canada Dry ginger ale for 230 cents.
But, Jemison said, on the day of the shooting she and three of her friends went to the Dollar General store during their lunch break when she saw Jones with four of her friends approaching her outside the store.
The hotel is located three doors down from The Mercantile, the couple's restaurant, bakery, general store and deli that draws fans far and wide to the small town of only 3,500, where guests can get breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Now, the only men left in La Belle are Whitey, sheriff Bill McNue (Scoot McNairy), who's slowly losing his eyesight, barman Barney, general store owner Asa Leopold (Randy Oglesby), and John Doe, the sole miner to survive the accident.
The townspeople have their favorite chat rooms and social platforms, but these are physical spaces — in the aisles of the general store, at the gym or the downstairs meeting room in Tracy Hall, in the shops along Main Street.
The temperature hovered just above zero, but that didn't stop Max Greenfield from heading to Serendipity 3, the old-fashioned cafe and general store on East 60th Street known for its indulgent ice cream desserts and frozen hot chocolate.
That being said, Lowe's' early rise from a small-town general store to a forward-looking hardware chain represents the momentum that the company would use to grow into the one of largest home-improvement retailers in the country.
The few current structures in Nipton—a general store, school, and hotel—will be used, but American Green intends to invest up to $2.5 million more to make Bluntsville (my name, not theirs) as tourist- and eco-friendly as possible.
WATCH THIS: Here's When It's Worth to Buy Organic To get to the Ranch, the site says visitors first have to stop by The Mercantile, where you can dine and shop at the Pioneer Woman's bakery, general store and deli.
In between casually watching a tube TV on the fritz, a relatively calm man runs the local general store, supplying essential goods based on a tab system, since everyone there can barely earn enough (mostly from picking crops) to scrape by.
Last December, the 28-year-old, who was 5 months pregnant at the time, was involved in an altercation outside a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, that led to another woman, Ebony Jemison, shooting her in the stomach.
Nestled on the edge of the Green Mountains, it's the classic definition of small town: no stoplight, a combined general store and gas station, a tiny library, and a single elementary school, all serving a population of just under 26,22011.
Though the Benedictine nuns of Our Lady of the Rock no longer operate the ferry landing at Shaw Island, they continue to run a farm there and sell some of their products, including cheese and herbs, at the Shaw General Store.
The self-proclaimed "most interesting store in the world" has already lived up to its name in its general store space,  with its whimsical showrooms, eye-popping displays, and clever methods of bringing lesser-known direct-to-consumer brands to life.
The candle, from an Australian company that specializes in warm-weather accessories, has a mild watermelon scent, which I didn't mind: Watermelon Candle, $32, Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store, 232 Fifth Avenue (President Street), Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-522-9848, blueribbongeneralstore.com.
Most recently it was a very chipper woman at the tourism bureau in downtown Saint John, in the back of Barbour's General Store, a 19th-century edifice towed there by barge from a small town up north a half-century ago.
Alan Dershowitz is holding court on the front porch of the Chilmark General Store, talking to old friends and complete strangers, nearly all of whom stop to tell him, between sips of their iced coffee, to keep doing what he's doing.
In 2011, when Erin Johnson left Fort Green, Brooklyn, to open Fork and Anchor, a gourmet sandwich shop and general store in East Marion, she and her partner, Lucy Muellner, dreamed of being the "Barefoot Contessa ladies" of the North Fork.
In February 2018, the Barnard General Store announced that it would no longer carry copies of The Times or any other out-of-town publications because of a price increase by the store's out-of-town newspapers distributor, White Mountain News.
Moira joins the town's singing group and directs a play; Alexis falls in love and goes back to school; David opens a posh general store; and Johnny partners with the motel's sardonic receptionist, Stevie (Emily Hampshire), and takes over the inn.
Take a nostalgic trip through Americana at the Moon Pie General Store, a novelty gift shop where Moon Pies are still made, or help create your own glass ornament at Ignis Glass Studio (Ignis suggests calling first: 2120-210-4073).
The town's current residents number fewer than two dozen and one of its major sources of revenue is the California Lottery tickets the general store sells to people who cross the state line from Nevada because they can't buy them there.
The elderly owner of a general store watches over his store while his wife hangs back smiling sadly; her dementia goes unmentioned but is undeniable, as she wanders away from the store each night at dusk unless her husband catches her.
Prisoners can then use those funds to buy approved items at the facility's commissary or general store, which ultimately turns cans of mackerel, stamps or even Ramen noodles into a form of prison currency that can be used to gamble.
A few years later, now in his teens, the future kingpin would take his burro on longer return trips to another hamlet called Huixiopa where he would buy soft drinks there at the general store of Doña Tonia to sell them back home.
There is only one flashing stop light on the main drag, a Dollar General store, and a host of other mom-and-pop businesses, but art lovers come in year-round from all over the world to see this special place for themselves.
Henning's Local At this relaxed Scandinavian-influenced restaurant — housed in an antiques-filled space above an 1800s general store — you can have fresh-from-the-Beaverkill hatchery rainbow trout prepared in a number of ways, including ''Norwegianne,'' with sour cream, chives and potatoes.
His hometown, he said, was recently voted "the fourth most boring city in Georgia," and he sang "Cold Spot," about the general store his father owned and operated there, while a picture of the humble store was displayed on the screen behind him.
Available in Maryland at Franklins Restaurant, Brewery and General Store in Hyattsville; the French Paradox Wines in Stevenson; Grosvenor Market in Rockville; Iron Bridge Wine Co. in Columbia; Spirits of Mt. Vernon and Wells Discount Liquors in Baltimore; Wine Bin in Ellicott City.
The recently opened Not So General (NSG) in West Hollywood, a former general store now textured with touches of neon, marble and mirrored acrylic, champions new designers such as the furniture-making duo Vonnegut/Kraft and the Amsterdam-based glass studio Germans Ermics.

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