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“The Cropsey family, which owns the property adjacent to the Shore Parkway, is betting that the economy has turned around enough to lure a developer to build a big-box store on their land.”
The Wall Street Journal: Developers Bet Large on Big-Box Sites
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘big-box store’.
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the one-two punch
short (mostly two-word) collocations, pat phrases, idioms &c. that I like
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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Well, Everyone Else Has A Hate-List, ...
When I rule the planet, the undermentioned items shall all be corrrected or expunged. In some cases I don't like the item from a linguistic point of view, in others I don't like what the item repre...
big-box store, ms, wonderation, disinterest, milquetoast, emoticon, herstory, australia, zero-sum game, specialism, assessable, pebblecrete and 52 more...
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Independent Bookselling in the 21st C...
"Bookselling was and is for me a cultural and political expression, an expression of progressive change, of challenge to oppressive authority, of a search for a community of values that can act as ...
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reesetee Why do I feel as though we're getting off the subject? ;-) Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear Or they mow down the forest and then call the housing development "____ Woods" or "Forest of _____" or "Fox Run," and name all the streets after the trees they cut down (like they did in my neighborhood). Nov 30, 2007
reesetee Right. And they're named "Meadow Glen Forest Mall" and "Waterfalls Gone Shopping Center." Well, at least they are around my neck of what was once the woods. ;-> Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear Yes, and now they're not just at malls anymore--they're like destinations unto themselves, built in place of forests teeming with wildlife. Oh joy. Nov 30, 2007
reesetee Yes, c_b has it right, bilby--I think I mentioned that this is a more general term, not specific to bookselling. In malls, these stores are usually called "anchor stores"--the big ones that sit on the ends of the mall and are presumed to be the biggest drawers of customers. Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear I hear this phrase all the time--but not just in reference to bookstores! I hear it used to refer to K-Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, Best Buy, CompUSA, huge stores like that. Nov 29, 2007
bilby I came across this term about 2 weeks ago on a website. I really didn't understand it. Nov 29, 2007
reesetee A large-format store with at least 100,000 sq. ft. of retail space. The name arose from the typically box-like exterior of this type of outlet. In bookselling, a big-box store is commonly considered the antithesis of an independent bookstore. Oct 23, 2007