a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
Origin
1760-70, Americanism
Examples from the web for variety store
There are buildings around the square: a movie house, a variety store, a gas station.
Idioms and Phrases with variety store
variety store
A retail shop that carries a large selection of usually inexpensive merchandise, as in What this town needs is a good variety store. [ Second half of 1700s ]