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convenience store
small corner shop selling bread, milk, lunches and other necessities and open for long hours, usually 7 days a week. Compare deli, milkbar, mixed business.
Contributor's comments: Convenience store unfortunately is an example of the dilution of our language by Americanisms.
Contributor's comments: Used in Melbourne too.
Contributor's comments: I agree that this is an Americanism. Cite: Twin Peaks (1991) - Philip Gerard: "We lived among the people. How do you say, convenience store? We lived above it."