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The term “store” includes any store or stores, or any mercantile establishment or establishments which are owned, operated, maintained, controlled or for which the buying is done by the same person, firm, corporation, co-partnership, or association, either domestic or foreign, in which goods, wares or merchandise of any kind are sold, either at retail or wholesale.
For information on Store Licenses see Title 40, Chapter 12, Article 6 in the Code of Alabama 1975 .