corner market
Small local store
To corner a market is to gain enough control over a commodity, stock, or resource that you can dictate prices.
The phrase suggests backing competitors into a corner—leaving them no room to maneuver: They tried to corner the silver market.
Someone who has cornered the market on something dominates supply of it, sometimes used figuratively: She's cornered the market on charm.
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- price fixingIllegal coordinated rate-setting
- bodegaSmall urban grocery
- convenienceEase of use
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
dominate · hostile takeover · grocery · stocks · trading · trading floor · speculation · short squeeze · squeeze · supply · supply chain · demand · control · storefront · brick and mortar · local · sidewalk · newsstand
- corner storesbodega, convenience store, local shop, quick stop, mom-and-pop store
- corner businessesbodega, newsstand
- Corners
- No Choiceno choice, no alternative, only option, take-it-or-leave-it, last resort
corner marketsupermarket
Self-service food retailer
hypermarket · big-box store · superstore · Costco · megastore
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