Talk:Chain store

Merger Proposal
Business chain, Chain store, and Restaurant chain are all minor variations on the theme and should be merged. I think they should be merged into Chain store, which also has the most history. Ewlyahoocom 16:34, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support move. -- Jjjsixsix (talk)/(contribs) @ 06:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose If there is such a dispute, this article should probably be moved to retail chain and this should become a disambig. I strongly believe retail chain is the more popular term for the subject of the article.  Tuxide 03:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * From Web search and definition search, "chain store" seems to be the more common. Britannica has an article for "chain store" that lists the alternative title as "retail chain store." --Tsavage (talk) 22:02, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose restaurant manufacture the goods they sell, but stores sell goods made elsewhere. The margins are totally different. (cost of good sold and labor costs) The types of people involved and the occations are different. --JMarsh 13:06, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose They are very differing things,i agree with Jmarsh,resturants DO make there stuff there,whilst retail things make there stuff elsewhere.--User5 15:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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Etymology of CHAIN store
I would like to know how the word "CHAIN" became associated with this grouping of businesses. I can think several other words that could have been used.

When did the reference to a "chain store" first appear in print?

Thanks.

66.82.9.57 02:17, 12 February 2007 (UTC)PBacina@comcast.net


 * A retailer becomes a retail chain when it opens its second store. For example, Dayton's (with its first store opening in 1902) became a retail chain when it opened its second store in the Southdale Center.  I would also like to see the origin of the word "chain"; perhaps we can start looking where the first chain store ever opened.  Tuxide 02:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Addition of 23 January 2016
The source you provided does not support the statement you added. For example: nowhere does it say that local merchants were angry; the source does NOT say that all retailers were required to charge the same price for the same item (the act had to do with prices charged TO the retailers, not BY them). Since I'm not sure the act even belongs in the article, I won't re-add; if you want to add it, please made any addition match the source. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 14:56, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I added RS that people can use if they want to rescue this article. Rjensen (talk) 16:47, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Are restaurants retailers?
"Chain store(s) or retail chain are retail outlets...". But according to a number of sources, I've read that restaurants are *not* considered retail. So should the definition be change? --Thumbtax (talk) 07:20, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Sad state of sourcing on the article
A photo on a Wikimedia project is not a reliable source. Almost half the article is original research and most of the rest is unsourced. From the tag, this has been the case for about eight years... I'm sure there are a lot of great sources about chain stores as a business model, check your local library. Bright☀ 16:32, 30 October 2017 (UTC)


 * From the reference:"They offered ready-to-wear clothing for men and children – and specialty clothing such as riding apparel and beachwear." Are you talking about something else?Ruedetocqueville (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Regarding the citation to Wikipedia, Wikipedia cannot be used as a source to make claims about third parties. Regarding the "failed verification", it refers to the information about A&P. Third, there is a gross amount of reliance on primary sources and original research, such as the link to dewachter.fr which is meaningless as a source. Bright☀ 15:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is correct. In particular, the Wikipedia source cannot be used at all, and should immediately be removed. I have done so. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 16:15, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I still don't understand the "not in citation listed" since the information is taken directly from the third paragraph of that website. And I don't understand "better source needed" when the information is taken directly from the 1875 Belgian national corporation records. What better source could there possibly be? Ruedetocqueville (talk) 11:15, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * After waiting a week for some reasoning behind the citations, I have removed them per the info immediately above. Ruedetocqueville (talk) 11:10, 28 November 2017 (UTC)