The Brick Store in Bath, New Hampshire, the oldest continually operating general store in the U.S.

A general store is usually a retailer located in a small town or in a rural area with a broad selection of merchandise crammed into a relatively small space. Bath is a town located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. ... A drawing of a self-service store Retailing consists of the sale of goods/merchandise for personal or household consumption either from a fixed location such as a department store or kiosk, or away from a fixed location and related subordinated services (Definition of the WTO (last page). ... Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Qichun, a rural town in Hubei province, China Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. ...

General stores often sell important food items such as milk and bread, and various household goods such as hardware and electrical supplies. The concept of the general store is very old, and although some still exist, there are far fewer than there once were, due to urbanization, the influx of suburban community development, and the relatively recent phenomenon of big-box stores. A glass of cow milk Milk is the nutrient fluid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals. ... European sweetbread (strucla) Four loaves French bread has a somewhat rigid crust Breads and Bread Rolls at a bakery Continental Italian Bread Tin Vienna Bread Bread in a traditional oven, in Portugal, with hot coal in front Pre-sliced bread has become more common in many countries Bread rolls Pain... The household is the basic unit of analysis in many microeconomic and government models. ... Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

During the first half of the 20th century, general stores were displaced in many areas by many different types of specialized retailers. But from the 1960s through the 1990s, many small specialized retailers were in turn crushed by the so-called "category killers," which are "big-box" wholesale-type retailers large enough to carry the majority of best-selling goods in a specific category like sporting goods or office supplies. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... The outrageously crowded Woodstock festival epitomized the popular antiwar movement of the 60s. ... See also 1990s, the band Seinfeld was a pop cultural phenomenon during the 90s and became one of the most popular TV programs ever. ... Wholesaling consists of the sale of goods/merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. ... Sports equipment includes any object used for sport or exercise. ... Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as paper work). The term includes small, expendable, daily use items such...

However, the convenience inherent in the general store has been revived in the form of the modern convenience store. Also, the hypermarket can be seen as taking the general store or convenience store concept to its largest possible implementation. A convenience store is a small store or shop, generally accessible or local. ... In commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore which combines a supermarket and a department store. ...

In British English similar retailers tend to be called a 'village shop' in rural areas or a 'corner shop' in urban or suburban settings. The band Cornershop take their name from this after the common perception of Indian immigrants as owning corner shops. Dialect areas of England British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate between the form of the English language used in the British Isles and those used elsewhere. ... Cornershop is a British band consisting of Tjinder Singh (singer, songwriter, and dholaki player), Ben Ayres (guitar, keyboards, and tamboura), Anthony Saffery (sitar, keyboards and harmonium), Nick Simms (drums) and Peter Bengry (percussion). ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ...

Village shops have become increasingly rare in Britain due to the rise in car ownership and competition from supermarkets. They are often combined with a post office. Few villages now have either. Exterior appearance of typical American supermarket (a Safeway) A supermarket or grocery store is a store that sells a wide variety of food. ... Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ...