Chain store
A Wal-Mart chain store
Chain stores are retail stores which share a brand and central management, usually with standardized business methods and practices. They may all have the same owners or may be franchised. Many restaurants are also chains.
Chain Store Media
Heritage W.H. Smith stall at Pickering railway station in North Yorkshire
Post card ad listing eight cities and towns where Dewachter Frères offered "ready-to-wear clothes and by measure for men and children," ca. 1885
Opening the first of its chain of teashops in 1894, branch of Lyons in Reading, Berkshire pictured in 1945
A Subway franchise restaurant
Related pages
- List of supermarkets, contains a number of chain stores
