Say a WalMart produces 100 jobs but kills off 120 Mom and Pop store jobs.
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For a mom-and-pop store, maybe spicing it up with a little controversy will draw the crowds.
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But mom-and-pop store owners were outraged, a major retailer threatened to yank Maytag from its stores and Maytag executives reversed course.
And this brings me to a short post about an old concept that has been revived, the mom and pop store online.
" He believes demand in both government and private industry has remained steady because accounting "flows from big business down to the mom-and-pop store on the street that needs to finance its loan.
If the cost of cigarettes is roughly equivalent in the local Mom and Pop store as it is on the reservation, the incentive to travel to Seneca Nation (or other tribe) territory is arguably lost.
Now her company, The Soft Serve Fruit Company, has since opened a flagship store near Union Square and a pop up store in the Hamptons.
In the US the brand will be distributed exclusively online with an occasional pop up store front lending support.
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Startups are the extensions of the mom-and-pop corner store, both in how they enable brick-and-mortar businesses to operate more efficiently and more profitably (Square, Evernote), and also in how they are reinventing offline businesses for an online economy (Warby Parker, Everlane).
This was followed by an exclusive opportunity to shop the collection via an on-site pop-up store.
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My co-founder, Paul, and I opened a pop-up store on Park Avenue to test the TripPhix business model.
Others that began as e-tailers-only are beginning to move into physical retailing, albeit in a lighter weight pop-up store format.
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Doodle3D was the breakaway hit at 3DEA, the 3D printing pop-up store in midtown Manhattan where I met Arthur in February.
The newest venture for the brother and sister team, both in their early 30s, is a pop-up store in Las Vegas.
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The biggest online auction site on the planet, eBay, is going pop-up store for holiday shopping, reversing the trend of brick and mortar integrating digital, and integrating in reverse.
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The dates of operation for the pop-up store are significant because it also coincides with Las Vegas Jewelry Week, a series of jewelry industry tradeshows that run roughly from May 28 till June 4.
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Or she could pop to the 99p Store in Camden High Street where she had once found, among the giant shampoo bottles and unseasonal Christmas decorations, a plastic model Cyberman exactly right for a grandchild.
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For Ms. Watts, working at a store with a pop-star clientele could help kick-start her singing career.
Walmart and Mattel joined forces to create a pop-up virtual holiday toy store in a high traffic area of Toronto.
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And in May, it undercut Apple's iTunes store by selling an album by pop singer Lady Gaga for 99 cents.
Because she will be selling packaged foods in her store (e.g. chips and pop-tarts), she also has to get a health department license and inspection.
We've also got interviews with Seattle's Sub Pop Records, music criticism site Pitchfork and California record store Amoeba, plus trips to music app developer Smule, internet radio pioneer Pandora and the legendary Moog factory.
Expect to see a barrage of new retail apps, mobile-only deals, and locally-inspired offers that pop-up on your device when you pass a favorite store.
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Tall department store buildings inundated with thousands of boutique stores and mom-and-pop shops sell familiar global brands like Nike and DKNY.
One such project is the Ultralounge exhibition space on the London store's lower ground floor, which marries innovative art with a pop sensibility.
If you were to visit the huge department store Selfridges in London today, you could visit the new David Bowie Pop-Up Boutique.
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We spotted an inflatable bathroom bubble that can pop up on any rooftop for a serene sunset soak, while Aether clothing dropped a three-story store made from stacked shipping containers in San Francisco.
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Luck hit theaters in May, pop pup Lindsay Lohan just happened to drop in at Kitson, on Robertson Boulevard, a hip apparel and accessories store in Beverly Hills.
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