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Dime store
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Variety store.
US five and dime stores
Frank Winfield Woolworth had seen the success in Michigan and western New York of so-called nickel stores, where everything cost five cents (a nickel). On February 22, 1879, Woolworth opened his Great Five Cent Store in Utica, New York, which created the American institution of the "five and dime", and became the F. W. Woolworth Company.