big box

See also: big-box

English

Noun

big box (plural big boxes)

  1. (business, commerce, retail) A large self-service store, usually on a single level, with few interior walls, owned and run by a corporation.
    Synonyms: big-box store, box store, hyperstore, megastore, supercenter, superstore
    Coordinate term: mom and pop
    • 2006, Stacy Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 120:
      Expect major mall owners to step up their courting of discounters and big boxes.
    • 2012, Lisa Scharoun, America at the Mall: The Cultural Role of a Retail Utopia, Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 120:
      Big Boxes are becoming ever more prevalent in suburbia, replacing many viable regional malls or
    • 2024, Bart Elmore, Rachel S. Gross, Sherri Sheu, Big box USA: the environmental impact of America's biggest retail stores, Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming Press, →ISBN, page 152:
      Different models of specialty big boxes persist , as does the suspicion of Walmart as both a cultural influence and a touchstone for how to build retail spaces
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big,‎ box.

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