Next up is friendly Williams, a railroad town loaded with courtyard motels and mom-and-pop diners.
Foursquare is especially interested in providing tools for small mom-and-pop businesses to increase their customers.
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More than 60, 000 of the retailers tracked by the ATF are indeed mom-and-pop type places.
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"It is definitely an issue that concerns big companies and mom-and-pop Web sites alike, " Garlock says.
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So Jiwire can serve these ads to national brands as well as mom-and-pop stores through Groupon.
They have mostly bought homes at auctions and through real-estate agents, just like their mom-and-pop competitors.
The argument is that their efficiency gives them an unfair advantage over mom-and-pop operators.
Bissell also established a distribution arm in the U.S., supplying goods mainly to mom-and-pop stores.
And when they do, the age of the mom-and-pop ISP shop will be gone for good.
But right next door, in the very same shopping plaza, is a mom-and-pop, artisanal bakery.
For a mom-and-pop store, maybe spicing it up with a little controversy will draw the crowds.
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You can also play the follow-back game, buy Net ads or pay mom-and-pop services.
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Therefore, distribution must be delivered through a multi-layer supply chain that ends in thousands of mom-and-pop storefronts.
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We never did find a Starbucks before leaving Pennsylvania or a cute mom-and-pop restaurant to eat at.
It began with small, maverick family-owned mom-and-pop shops that overcame struggles to raise meager amounts of private capital.
Samsung also has much greater retail reach than Apple, selling its devices through 100, 000 franchisee-owned and mom-and-pop stores.
Like many other mom-and-pop ISPs, Cape.com had its beginnings in 1995 when the first great Internet wave was cresting.
But the fake nostalgia for mom-and-pop retailing exists in part because many Americans have never encountered it at all.
Apple sells in India through roughly 2, 000 mom-and-pop stores and 65 franchisee-owned "Apple shops" in malls and other high-end spots.
Naturally, the victims of eminent domain misdeeds are those with the least political power: the elderly, mom-and-pop establishments and low-income homeowners.
Tall department store buildings inundated with thousands of boutique stores and mom-and-pop shops sell familiar global brands like Nike and DKNY.
By the early 1990s the number of mom-and-pop supply shops in the U.S. had dropped by more than half, to 6, 000.
But mom-and-pop store owners were outraged, a major retailer threatened to yank Maytag from its stores and Maytag executives reversed course.
Mobile devices in the country typically go through several layers carriers, national and local distributors and mom-and-pop retail shops before getting to consumers.
Self storage had long been a sleepy market that counts about 55, 000 properties nationwide that are mostly operated by mom-and-pop landlords.
Japan's plan to weaken the yen is creating opportunities for U.S. importers of Japanese goods, especially mom-and-pop shops selling specialty goods.
While Thomas says his foundation still has a "mom-and-pop" feel, they plan to continue growing to help more children in need.
But his critics said, well, Wal-Mart comes into a small town and puts everybody out of business, the mom-and-pop stores and rival chains.
That is a tall order for mom-and-pop types, given that successful betting on merger outcomes involves evaluating the strings attached to competing bids.
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In Mexico, Cadbury serves about 380, 000 mom-and-pop outlets, while Oreo cookies have been available through the Kraft distribution network in about 100, 000 outlets.
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