General store and Shop

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General store noun - A retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise.

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Shop and general store are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shop" instead a noun phrase "General store".

Shop noun - A building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods.

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General store and shop are semantically related. You can use "General store" instead a noun "Shop".

Nearby Words: shopping, shopper, shopped

In previous games, he ran the general store and unless his shop was closed, chances are if you played the game, you would be seeing him.

Source: Video Game / Animal Crossing
If you don't have the Genre Savvy to recognize an item that doesn't belong in the shop, or if it's a general store, then you'll end up stumbling across it and getting attacked.

Source: Demonic Spiders / Roguelikes
The Last Chance General Store in A Series of Unfortunate Events, although (as the name implies) it is a smallish shop in the middle of nowhere, fits this trope.

Source: We Sell Everything

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