mom-and-pop store

Example Sentences

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"Do we stay as a mom and pop store for the Asian community?" she recalls.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2022

“And a little mom and pop store that sells snacks and sodas and candy.”

From Scientific American • Apr. 18, 2019

And the point that Senator Sanders keeps making about how he wouldn’t want a mom and pop store — that was not the point of this.

From Time • Apr. 14, 2016

The three of them moved down sidewalks like window-shopping loiterers looking into every mom and pop store along the way.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)