mom-and-pop
adjective
1
: being or relating to a small owner-operated business
a mom-and-pop grocery
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Positioned for the next wave of retail tech Cloud adoption is accelerating well beyond mom-and-pop stores as regional chains virtualize legacy systems for remote management.
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Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
This mom-and-pop shop grills pork and chicken Filipino barbecue on skewers.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
With fewer barriers, mom-and-pop shops might afford AI tools that were once reserved for enterprise giants.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Under Fred Pressman’s leadership, Barneys expanded from a mom-and-pop menswear shop in the Chelsea section of Manhattan into an internationally renowned chain with 14 stores and seven outlets in the U.S. and a volume of $425 million for the year ended July 1995.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 31 July 2025
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Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
This mom-and-pop shop grills pork and chicken Filipino barbecue on skewers.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
With fewer barriers, mom-and-pop shops might afford AI tools that were once reserved for enterprise giants.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Under Fred Pressman’s leadership, Barneys expanded from a mom-and-pop menswear shop in the Chelsea section of Manhattan into an internationally renowned chain with 14 stores and seven outlets in the U.S. and a volume of $425 million for the year ended July 1995.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 31 July 2025
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“Mom-and-pop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mom-and-pop. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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