First Certificate in English - Vocabulary
Shop / Store
1. a shop
- shop
- retail outlet
- chainstore
shop especially British /store especially American building or place where things are sold: Could you run down to the shop and get me some cigarettes? | A lot of the stores on the main street had been boarded up. | I asked in my local record shop but they couldn't help me. | I saw Helen at the grocery store this morning. | I got it from the secondhand furniture shop. | a new health food shop | It's where the old jewelry store used to be.
chain store one of a group of large shops that have the same name and are owned by the same company: A lot of the old Victorian buildings are being pulled down to make way for chain stores.
retail outlet a shop where a company sells its goods - use this in business or legal contexts: Benetton has retail outlets in every major European city | The company has been forced to close hundreds of its retail outlets.
2. different types of shop
- supermarket
- pharmacy
- convenience store
- a hardware store
- corner shop
- newsagent's
- bakery
- newsagent ...
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