It is still possible to walk or ride a bike to a corner store, cafe, gallery or museum.
In the era of the big box, it's tough being the corner store.
In August 2011, Ligon sent her teenage son to the corner store get ketchup for the fries she was making for dinner.
And as this woman mentioned, somebody might have to go to a corner store, a convenience store, that has only processed, high-calorie foods.
If you feel the urge to pick up some scratch-offs at the corner store, at least be aware what a terrible proposition the lottery is.
Set in a fairytale New York where danger lurks in every corner store, the movie dresses its slummy scenario in pretentious dialogue and a woozy camera style.
But anti-smoking advocates say restricting sales to adults-only smoke shops would stymie illegal sales and hinder youths purchasing cigarettes through an adult who buys them at a corner store.
As I walk by one corner store, its display of flowers from before the hurricane are still on sale, I see a couple go up and examine the tulips and carnations.
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Whitehead points out that comic books aren't generally available at the corner store anymore, so the impulse buys he made at the drug store in his youth are less likely to happen.
Mr Martin, it turns out, had been walking back to the house of his father's girlfriend in the gated community, having bought some sweets and iced tea at a nearby corner store.
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Startups are the extensions of the mom-and-pop corner store, both in how they enable brick-and-mortar businesses to operate more efficiently and more profitably (Square, Evernote), and also in how they are reinventing offline businesses for an online economy (Warby Parker, Everlane).
Because we can give our kids the healthiest school breakfasts and lunches imaginable, but that won't mean much if they head to the corner store after school and buy candy and chips and soda because that's all they have available, right?
Consequently, for the first time since the days of the corner store (that was sustained or broken by a local reputation and word of mouth), virtually every brand must do what it says and act in the best interest of its customer set.
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With dozens of companies chasing their business, how much does the corner sandwich store stand to gain?
At a corner convenience store where Lin worked, a makeshift memorial went up with notes of condolences.
Certainly, the current flu season is going to ring some registers, and not just at the corner drug store or the local health clinic.
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At the newsstand out front of the corner candy store, ten times more customers bought the Racing Form than the Yiddish daily, the Forvertz.
Apple Chief Executive SteveJobsSteve Jobs' tiny iPod has turned his company into a category killer for the digital era--first wiping out music stores and now, potentially, the corner video store.
Because your holiday gift list requires you to travel beyond the corner convenience store, Wells Fargo and Visa have teamed up for a series of special merchant offers that can save you even more money.
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"I think it's neat both for Pearl Jam and Target that they've made a deal like this that is going to include the corner record store, where so many of us fell in love with music like Pearl Jam's, " Jim DeRogatis says.
Alain Ducasse has opened a sumptuous hotel, L'Andana, here, in a 16th-century former hunting lodge of the grand duke of Tuscany, and there is a small but impressive echelon of destination restaurants--like Caino, in the medieval village of Montemerano, and Ristorante Bracali, in a former corner tobacco store near Massa Marittima--where local chefs are rising to Michelin stardom by (profoundly) rethinking local dishes.
Mr. BETTS: In the fifth grade, my mother sent me down to the corner to the store to get a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk.
New Yorkers most often purchase sugary beverages in the grocery store, at a corner bodega, or a chain convenience store.
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In one corner stands The Ad Store from New York and its central figure, Paul Cappelli.
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This Friday the company will open its first brick and mortar Spanx store at Tysons Corner Center, a high-end mall in McLean, Va.
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He lived on paved, lighted city streets, and a bicycle ride away were the Asian drugstore and the Armenian grocery store and the corner where black Cubans drank coffee and talked Dodgers baseball.
The crowd began lining up at the Store on the corner of Henan Middle Road and East Nanjing Road at 10pm on Thursday, and were rewarded for their patience and bitterness-munching skills with staff hand-outs of high-fives, full-on reciprocal man-on-man hugs with hoisting involved, and free gray t-shirts.
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