Usually this refers to the bottom floor (sometimes bottom few floors) of commercial real estate where the shops are leased from the main structure and have an on-street presence. While some buildings have multiple stores, the storefronts are the ones that face outside/or main hallways and have display windows. More @Wikipedia
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