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Both 店 and ショップ translate into English as "shop". For which circumstances
would you use each word?

My first assumption was that 店 would be used for more "traditional" shops than
ショップ, but when I did a google image search of 店, one of the hits was for Mos
Burger.
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Difference between 店 and ショップ
The generic word for "shop" or "store" is most definitely [店]{みせ}, often said
with お in front, or more formally, [商店]{しょうてん}. For instance, when we say
"There are about 200 stores (in this area).", we will say
「200[軒]{けん}くらいお店がある」. No one in his right mind will say 「200軒くらいショップがある。」.
This I can tell you for sure but the rest of my post will be all about
"tendencies" and personal observations. It is a world of cultural and
linguistic idiosyncrasies.

We use the word ショップ most often in compound words in which it is combined with
another English-origin words such as
メンズショップ、レディースショップ、フラワーショップ、アクセサリーショップ、フルーツショップ、etc. However, even though these
katakana compounds are used as part of the actual shop names (proper nouns)
such as 「メンズショップタカハシ」 and「フルーツショップみかど」, the generic name for all these stores
will still be お店 or 商店. Pointing your finger at one of these shops, you
generally would not say 「あそこはいいショップだ。」.

I said "generally not" instead of "never" above because in recent years, quite
a few people use ショップ in this kind of conversation IF the store is fashion-
related. For this particular usage, the pitch accent is placed on the プ
instead of the ショ, which is where the "normal" pitch accent is placed in the
word. Then again, the majority of people would still use お店 to refer to a
fashion-related store.

It is just impossible to come up with a rule that works all the time. We use
「ショップ」 where we think it sounds or looks cool but nearly no one would
understand you if you said 「ショップクラーク」, which is why we have a strange Sino-
Anglo compound 「ショップ[店員]{てんいん}」 as I mentioned in the comment above. It is
weird because 「店員」 means the exact same and it is shorter but as long as there
are people who would rather have a katakana part, if not the whole name, in
their occupation names, we will continue to create these words. Trust me, it
was even worse in the Bubble Period. Back then, some people wrote everything
from prose to catch copies in English-origin katakana loan words except for
the particles!
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