The Precarious State of the Mom-and-Pop Store
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
Vesuvio Bakery in Little Italy, New York, 2004. Image © James & Karla Murray
This article was originally published on Common Edge.Few businesses in the United States are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There?s an ?all?s right with the world? quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood?s everyday needs and, through repeated face-to-face exchanges, help people feel they?re members of a mutually supportive community. And yet for a long time, mom-and-pop stores have been under stress. In the half-century after 1950, cars shifted much of United States?s retailing to unwalkable roadside strips and winnowed the ranks of neighborhood-scale mom-and-pops. In the past two decades, the burgeoning of the internet has intensified the pressure on brick-and-mortar retail, a situation worsened by the pandemic. Read more »
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Vesuvio Bakery in Little Italy, New York, 2004. Image © James & Karla Murray
This article was originally published on Common Edge.Few businesses in the United States are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There?s an ?all?s right with the world? quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood?s everyday needs and, through repeated face-to-face exchanges, help people feel they?re members of a mutually supportive community. And yet for a long time, mom-and-pop stores have been under stress. In the half-century after 1950, cars shifted much of United States?s retailing to unwalkable roadside strips and winnowed the ranks of neighborhood-scale mom-and-pops. In the past two decades, the burgeoning of the internet has intensified the pressure on brick-and-mortar retail, a situation worsened by the pandemic. Read more »
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