mom-and-pop

That's why employers, from international non-profits to the mom-and-pop stores down the road, want employees able to think globally.

Companies including Wal-Mart and Tesco lobbied hard to be allowed into a market dominated by 9m "mom and pop" corner stores.

But I thought I'd put together a little list of what mom-and-pop stores can do to attract younger customers.

But you're missing the point of the story. A mom-and-pop bowling ball bag manufacturer in Jersey. . .

"Mom-and-pop stores can use their small size to their advantage by making it easier for people, " he said.

As the old saying has it, he would eat "anything on two legs except Mom and Pop, anything on four legs except beds and chairs. "

I would be happy to set up a website for any mom-and-pop business that is okay with a website based off a blog host. For free.

But a central reason, say economists, is that its private sector consists mostly of small mom-and-pop businesses that seem unable to grow.

Zappos is a billion-dollar company with customer service characteristic of a mom-and-pop shop.

Traditionally only immigrant and small mom-and-pop businesses were willing to risk the city's intermittent crackdowns.

It'll start with the largest corporations and trickle down to the mom and pop bakery on the corner.

The risk for mom-and-pop investors is that the hot money flowing into emerging markets today flows back out just as quickly.

Everyone from the top video game publishing conglomerates to the mom-and-pop app developers are salivating.

Some projects fail to recognize this difference and never recover (just try to deploy a J2EE server at a mom-and-pop startup).

It's the rise of fast food content that will surely, over time, destroy the mom and pop operations that hand craft their content today.

Amazon's campaign strategy is now to evoke sympathy for these mom-and-pop stores.

Supermarket operators are expanding their networks in India, posing a challenge to the country's traditional "mom and pop" stores.

the wheezing photocopiers at most mom-and-pop phone shops might not handle the strain of such unending work well.

Many started out in mom-and-pop businesses.

Victoria looks sexy in her shorts. Mom and Pop and the kids.

Many companies provide this service, from small, mom-and-pop operations to national franchises.

he bought his brother's business; a small mom-and-pop business; a racially integrated business concern.

Many mom-and-pop investors, who were badly burned by the stock-market collapse, remain wary.

This is at a Puerto Rican, little mom-and-pop store, at a bar in Christopher Street, at a pool hall.

Korea maintains various entry barriers to shelter mom-and-pop stores from competition.

The clients of NAHU members range from Fortune 500 companies to mom-and-pop businesses and individuals seeking health insurance.

At the moment 97% of retail sales are made in more than 15m tiny mom-and-pop stores, mostly of less than 500 square feet (46 square metres).

Pressures are building at China's ubiquitous neighborhood mom-and-pop oil vendors.

These are the mom and pop stores and restaurants, beauty shops and construction companies that support families and sustain communities.

Mom-and-pop shops often allow haggling on prices, undercutting even big chains.

These "mom and pop" producers sell their videos and photos to distributors.

Eventually, he expanded his search to Home Depot, Lowe's and mom-and-pop hardware stores.

I turned to ask the elderly lady -- the Mom in the "Mom and Pop" equation -- who was equally non-conversant in English.

Big corporations are responsible for the death of mom and pop stores.

They're running the mom and pop stores and neighborhood restaurants we know and love.

That grocery store is a simple Mom and Pop operation.

Its research into 2, 000 "mom and pop" stores has shown that nearly all are thriving, despite the arrival of the supermarkets.

A key concern has been that Western companies would cannibalize mom-and-pop stores. Ms.

When I was a kid, my neighborhood streets were lined with mom-and-pop stores.

The business is dominated by tiny mom-and-pop stores.

He starts by examining our childhood (Yes, you get to blame mom and pop again . . . it's wonderful).

That might mean working with local "mom and pop" shops.

For those not in China, a Xiaochi literally means "small eats, " refering to hole-in-the wall restaurants often run by mom and pop.

In China, milk producers often buy raw milk from dealers and mom-and-pop operations that receive little oversight.

They have gone the same way as mom-and-pop grocery stores.

These ones work fine, and they leave me enough money to spend in a mom and pop store.

We began selling rice cookers from one small shop in Taipei. At that time, we were strictly a mom-and-pop operation.

Hong Kong's economy thrives on businesses that have grown from mom-and-pop store beginnings into publicly listed companies.

Thanks, Mom and Pop! (Although, this writer's last name didn't help. )