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What is the difference between store and shop ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between store and shop ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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11 May 2016
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Shop links to the word shopping. Store is more like a place for storage. For clothes, 'shop' seems more appropriate.
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store is like a supermarket shop is like a mall with clothing shops
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A shop could be smaller than a store. They are almost the same.
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So if I want to sell clothes with the internet, online "shop" is better...?
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I think I like "online shop". Sounds good.
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Shop links to the word shopping. Store is more like a place for storage. For clothes, 'shop' seems more appropriate.
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There is a small difference, but don't worry too much about it. Nobody will really care whether you say "store" or shop".
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