convenience store

convenience store (plural convenience stores)

1. A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.

• (small retail store): corner shop (UK); corner store, dépanneur (Canadian English); bodega (New York City English); pony keg (Cincinnati)

• Japanese: コンビニエンスストア (konbiniensu sutoa)

• milk bar