0 a shop that sells a wide range of products, often the only shop in a village --
1 a store, usually in a rural area, that sells food and a large variety of other products --
Most of them also make money by running a garage with car mechanics, or with a general store attached to it.
To people who live in isolated areas mobile shops are vital when they cannot get to towns or to the general store for their groceries.
And one other helps keep open a general store in a village with only one other shop.
In order to qualify for assistance, the general store or post office must be in a community of 3,000 people or fewer.
We have consulted widely on the rate relief scheme and included in the consultation was the definition of a general store.
The lifeblood of the village is often the small general store and post office.
Instead, her amendment would provide that the business would have to be substantially a general store before the relief ended.
How you are to dispose of them is, of course, a detailed matter which you can only answer with reference to the general store itself.
