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What Do You Call the Corner Store?
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by Dan Nosowitz, July 07, 2016

• "convenience store" - a small store stocking a wide variety of essential items including food and snacks (certainly premade, sometimes made on-site), toiletries, probably some basic household supplies and tools, soft drinks, coffee, magazines and newspapers, and candy.
• "bodega" is a Spanish word deriving from the Latin "apotheca", or "apothecary". It has various meanings, none of which is "market", as is commonly stated. (The word for "market" is "mercado".) Instead it means something closer to "storeroom" or "cellar", a pretty accurate description. In Spain, it mostly refers to a "wine cellar".
• "delis", short for "delicatessen"
• "dépanneur", or "dep" for short, coming from the French "dépanner", meaning "to help one out of a jam"
• "party store", which is sort of an optimistic name
• "packie" is a mutation of "package store", coming from laws that require alcohol sold in these stores must be sealed and not drunk on premises
• "offy" comes from "off-license", and has the same exact reasoning as the Massachusetts "packie"
• "variety store"
• "sari-sari store" - Sari-sari is the Tagalog word for "variety"
• "milk bar" - having originally been sort of a twist on the American "malt shop"
• "dairies"
• "superette"
• "Arabe du coin", or "Arab of the corner"
• "7-Eleven"
• "konbini" - That term is an abbreviation of "konbiniensu sutoa", which is a sort of Japanization of the English phrase "convenience store"
• "conveni" - In Japan the convenience store is basically known as a "conveni".
• "mama shop" - comes from the word "mama" in the Tamil language of India, meaning something like "elder"
• "Oxxo" - being the largest, and it or the local chain will often be referred to by name.
• "tienda" - simply means "store" in Spanish
• "misceláneas" - meaning something close to "variety"
• "depanneur"
• "corner store"
• "corner shop"
• "mini-mart"
• "mini"

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Origin of commerce

1530–40; - Middle French - Latin "commercium", equivalent to "commerc(ari)" "to trade together" ("com-" "com-" + "mercari" "to buy", "deal", derivative of "merc-", stem of "merx" "goods") + "-ium" "-ium"

commerce (n.), 1530s, "social intercourse"; 1580s, "interchange of goods or property", "trade", especially trade on a large scale by transportation between countries or different parts of the same country, from Middle French "commerce" (14c.), from Latin "commercium" "trade", "trafficking", from com "with", "together" (see "com-") + "merx" (genitive "mercis") "merchandise" (see "market" (n.)).

It also was the name of a card game very popular in 1770s and '80s. As a verb, "have dealings with", 1590s.

Related: "Commerced", "commercing".

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Commerce - What is Commerce 'Commerce'

"Commerce" is the conduct of trade among economic agents. Generally, commerce refers to the exchange of goods, services or something of value, between businesses or entities. From a broad perspective, nations are concerned with managing commerce in a way that enhances the well-being of citizens, by providing jobs and producing beneficial goods and services.
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From a marketing point-of-view, commerce is discussed with reference to the three big C's: "content, commerce, and community".
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Some commentators trace the origins of commerce to the very start of communication in prehistoric times. Apart from traditional self-sufficiency, trading became a principal facility of prehistoric people, who bartered what they had for goods and services from each other. Historian Peter Watson dates the history of long-distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago.
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Now the site of a high school and an upscale flea market this was almost the site of the largest cathedral in the US
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American hospital teapot - This was used to serve tea at the Hahnemann hospital in Philadelphia. The owner bought it at a "flea market" in the US. Contributed by Individual

China half timbered house I bought this china half timbered house in a "flea market". It is labelled Mermaid - a china house in Tudor style. It ... Contributed by Individual

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In a recent issue of Moloko, she talked about gathering source material. “On Saturdays I like to go through the "flea market" collecting memories. "Feira da Ladra" as we call it here in Lisbon. That means "Thief Fair", which is funny collecting other people’s memory to build a new one”. Her source material comes from a variety of modern sources including: record covers, Canadian logos, 1960s paperback books, Latvian magazines, Swiss posters, as well as work from the Bauhaus.
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[flea market] {n. phr.} A place where antiques, second-hand things, and cheap articles are sold, and especially one in the open air. * /The local antique dealers held a flea market and fair on the high-school athletic field./ * /There are many outdoor flea markets in Europe./

Why Are Flea Markets Called That?
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A third explanation comes from colonial America. The Dutch traders who settled New York had an outdoor market they called the "Vlaie" (sometimes spelled as "Vly", or "Vlie") Market, named from the Dutch word for "swamp" and referencing the market’s location on what was once a salt marsh. English speakers pronounced the word with an "f" up front (update 12/6: and sometimes a long "I" on the end), and the "Fly Market" / "Flea Market" and other places like it eventually all became "flea markets".

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After discovering some negatives at a "flea market" and scanning them onto her computer, Teeuwisse then went to each of these Amsterdam locations to take more recent shots. She then merged the two together to make the past come alive. It's a wonderful way to pay tribute to our past and remember the ones who came before us.
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What is the origin of the term "flea market"?

"Flea market" comes from the French "marché aux puces", a name originally given to a market in Paris which specialized in shabby second-hand goods of the kind that might contain fleas. The earliest English use that the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary has found dates from 1922.

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The term is a direct translation from French "marché aux puces", which is what such markets were called "A flea market".
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The following quote from G. S. Dougherty (1922) explains why informal markets where people gather selling used items came to be known by that name: "It is called the 'Flea' Market because there are so many second hand articles sold of all kinds that they are believed to gather fleas."
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Flea market

The "flea market", often abbreviated "furima" in Japanese, is a place where people can sell things they no longer need or things they have made themselves.
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The five best-selling items are, according to the Tokyo Recycle Citizen's Group, women's clothes, children's clothes, sundries, old clothes for young people, and gift items.
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"flea market" an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles

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There are two theories about the origin of "flea market" ...
According to etymologist Christine Ammer, the first "flea market" may have been New York's raucous Fly Market, a fixture in Lower Manhattan from before the American Revolution until around 1816. The "Fly" came from the Dutch name for the market, "Vly" or "Vlie", which meant "valley", and was pronounced, you guessed it, "flea". Voila, "flea market". Maybe.

However, while the "Fly Market" certainly existed, and its name was evidently indeed pronounced "flea market", the actual origin of the term most probably lies in Paris, where Le "Marche aux Puces" (literally, "market of the fleas") was a popular shopping venue. Le Marche aux Puces took its name, as you might have guessed by now, from the semi-humorous (and probably at least partly accurate) popular perception that the market's ragtag goods were more than likely to be infested with fleas.

In any case, "flea market" first appeared in English in the 1920's and is most likely a simple translation of the French market's name. If "flea market" had gained currency from the Manhattan "Fly Market", it almost certainly would have appeared in print much earlier than it did.

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Generally, the word "flea" connotes low-rent or cheap, because such places were often infested with "fleas" (cf. "fleabag"). The term "flea market" is a translation of the French "marché aux puces", literally "market with fleas", an open-air market where second hand goods are sold.
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