How to Use mom-and-pop in a Sentence

mom-and-pop

adjective
  • From the swankiest, fine dining to the mom-and-pop spots.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There are lots of unique mom-and-pop pizzerias places that did not make this list.
    Haley Laurence | Hlaurence@al.com, al, 15 June 2023
  • Shoplifters are more likely to steal from large chain stores (52%) than mom-and-pop shops (28%).
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In town, there’s a cluster of small shops and restaurants, and mom-and-pop lodgings.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Was that because of – or in spite of – the fact that half of NFL teams are mom-and-pop shops passed down as heirlooms?
    USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Warner won’t sell to box stores, only mom-and-pop places.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Sales were good, but Wicked Bold’s packaging screamed part-time mom-and-pop.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • And these neighborhoods, for a large part, are defined by these mom-and-pop stores.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But Olive said that because it’s privately owned, there’s still a bit of a mom-and-pop feel to his job.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
  • In other words, discounts to big-box chains must be available to mom-and-pop stores, too.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • Locally-owned, mom-and-pop retail shops still rein in this small town.
    Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The mom-and-pop diner; the vinyl record shop–the local and uncommercialized.
    Michael Serazio, Fortune, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Such mom-and-pop joints once dotted the North Carolina countryside, but Grady’s is one of the last few left.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Southern Living sent him in search of mom-and-pop restaurants with recipes worth reporting to the wider world.
    Ben Terris, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • The mom-and-pop pizza joint keeps it simple with its menu of pizzas, wings and mozzarella sticks.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Renu runs one of the millions of mom-and-pop stores, known as kiranas, located all over India.
    Shamina Singh, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The stock was bolstered by Trump supporters and mom-and-pop investors looking to make a quick buck on the stock’s soaring price.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The heists aren’t plaguing just big-box complexes and mom-and-pop convenience stores.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • There are sadly no mom-and-pop stores in Lower Manhattan.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • The neon signs and mom-and-pop shops on Yonge Street have morphed into hipster-friendly barbershops and cafés.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But that's the energy of Taiwan: all that commerce, the mom-and-pop shops, the food stalls feeding millions of people every day.
    Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Dropbox has long been known as a storage tool for mom-and-pop creative companies.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • Downtown and historic Market Square is home to mom-and-pop shops, a fantastic farmer’s market, and year-round events.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
  • Between excursions, there are breweries, antique stores, and mom-and-pop spots — quirky Lulu's on Main has been a go-to for decades.
    Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But the point remains: Why does a mom-and-pop business like Beek’s need to be a guinea pig in California’s push to become a clean-air paradise?
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Since the industry is so vast and diverse, from grocers to clothiers, big-box stores to mom-and-pop shops, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution on the cloud.
    Sanjeev Siotia, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The city needs to be supportive of mom-and-pop apartment owners, so life can be better for those apartment owners and for those who rent from them.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • And corporations with more than 15 homes were 68% more likely to file evictions than mom-and-pop landlords.
    Brian Eason, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And at the center of it all, on the sport’s biggest stage, is a literal mom-and-pop shop that, less than a decade and a half ago, was struggling to find a foothold in football as anything but a joke.
    Alex Prewitt, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Hasidic shoppers in Williamsburg almost exclusively patronize mom-and-pop shops, the local ones along Lee Avenue and the adjacent streets that sell shoes and kosher poultry and Judaica and more.
    Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024

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