corner shop
(UK) A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of everyday items and is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.
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Perhaps you should offer her a bolt-hole in the village, Sir Mike? She could assist in the corner shop when Jill goes in for her regular therapy sessions?
Not been on here much recently as my days are now spent trying to sort out this wee b’stard! First confrontation of the day was at 6:45am and by 10:30am we’d had at least 7 skirmishes. I was heavily (but humanely) arm…
I'm not even sure you can get a bag of crisps at ours. They're fancy crisps, mind. But we don't even have a corner shop on our campus anymore, it didn't make any money because it was tucked away in a quiet place.
they’re not even banned, they are available in every goddamn corner shop I could care to visit, and this is the kind of stupid bullshit that the Biden administration wanted to call an accomplishment. I don’t fucking c…
i'm on my way to the corner shop for some bodegas
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(UK) A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of everyday items and is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.
After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had s…
“Perhaps you should offer her a bolt-hole in the village, Sir Mike? She could assist in the corner shop when Jill goes in for her regular therapy sessions?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Not been on here much recently as my days are now spent trying to sort out this wee b’stard! First confrontation of the day was at 6:45am and by 10:30am we’d had at least 7 skirmishes. I was heavily (but humanely) armed with my Aqua-Glock. £3.99 from the local corner shop. 🔫🐿️🔫”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I'm not even sure you can get a bag of crisps at ours. They're fancy crisps, mind. But we don't even have a corner shop on our campus anymore, it didn't make any money because it was tucked away in a quiet place.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“they’re not even banned, they are available in every goddamn corner shop I could care to visit, and this is the kind of stupid bullshit that the Biden administration wanted to call an accomplishment. I don’t fucking care. This is fucking absurd to care about.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i'm on my way to the corner shop for some bodegas”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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