Sentences with phrase «like mom and pop»

Just like the banking industry, we are consolidating to operate more like Bank of America and GEICO, and less like mom and pop PMs of old.

Sounds like a mom and pop deal and if the bills are not in your name, it would be hard for them to report you to a credit agency.

Not exact matches

Home Capital Group has seen some of its riskier lending business drain away to the private, unregulated mortgage lenders — firms like Alpine Credit or the many so - called «mom - and - pop» shops which proliferated as small investors teamed up with brokers to provide short - term, non-amortized loans.

Lots of people talk a good game about supporting mom - and - pop retail and wanting their communities to stay the way they once were, but in practice, they're busy and they like having products cheaply and reliably delivered to their door.

That made it seem smaller, like a mom - and - pop operation.

The REAL one for I did for TV says «my mom» but, like, I needed this one for myself because it was the first thing that actually popped in my head and I thought I was so funny.

Its «SuperNAP» facilities in Las Vegas store data for hundreds of businesses, from Fortune 500's like eBay and Sony to mom and pop florists to governmental agencies.

James's pitch is, ultimately, aimed at big institutional money managers like Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, which could gather the assets of mom - and - pop investors into a pool big enough to buy in to private equity.

Price Rationale: In industries like this one, in which nonprofits and mom - and - pops compete with national chains, there's only one rule of thumb: buy a business that has already proved its ability to earn money.

Amazon has been labeled a job - destroyer, its low prices driving manufacturers, mom - and - pop stores, and retail chains like Borders and Toys «R» Us out of business.

The stores are going out of business, especially the stores that are either mom and pops, or small well - known stores like art supply stores that have been there for a generation.

Over and above, the Street Food industry is a profitable industry and it is open for any aspiring entrepreneur to come in and establish his or her business; you can choose to start on a small scale in a street corner like the average mom and pop business or you can choose to start on a large scale with several food carts covering key cities with the view of selling franchise in future.

The digital currency has also gotten a big lift this year from mom - and - pop investors in countries like South Korea and Japan who don't want to miss out on the prospect of more big gains.

I've created and executed linking strategies for clients ranging from Goliath's like Disney and Amazon to mom and pops, and I've purposely stayed a one person operation.

-LCB- Though my mom cans, so it's not like I didn't grow up hearing the ping and pop of lids -RCB-.

Deb, the book is amazing and its everything I hoped for, the pictures pop off the page and even though I didn't end up physically in the kitchen sharing some of Mom's Apple Cake with you — I felt like I was that much closer (I am in California after all!).

Foxtail has the best of both worlds in that it operates much like a mom - and - pop niche bakery for foodservice customers looking for custom solutions, but it also has the quality control and technical measures in place to meet the demands of large - scale corporations.

«We've seen other mom and pop stores that have brought in products like smoothies and have failed.

When the former Marine returned after serving in the Vietnam War, «He took my parents» business from being run like a mom - and - pop place and brought in things like automation, inventory and production control,» she says.

This mom - and - pop restaurant doesn't look like much from the front porch, but don't let that fool you — Rodney slow cooked his first hog over a wood - burning pit when he was eleven.

More and more lines are popping up like the Rosie Pope Nursing Line that make it easier for moms who want to look nice and feed their baby.

Well, of course, not all daycare is like that, but when you're a mom that's the fear you have, and those are the images that popped into my head every time I thought of returning to work.

-LSB-...] it in this Pop Sugar post: Introduce milk in «baby sips,» and moms who did this, like blogger Confessions of a Dr. Mom, testify that it works (if only I had read their tips last -LSB-...]

Because those bumps that popped out around moms nipples are called montgomery glands and they secrete an oily liquid that smells like amniotic fluid.

Nature - inspired names and color names are also big hits at the present time with designations like River, Willow, Ivory and Ember being snatched up by many moms and pops.

It can be popped on a stovetop like popcorn and when mixed with vitamin and antioxidant - rich fruits — including blueberries, cranberries, apples and cherries — makes for a delicious and filling breakfast for nursing moms.

The Denver - based IT company hired by Clinton in 2013 to oversee her private email server was previously a small «mom and pop shop» that seemed like a «bizarre» choice for the former Secretary of State, according to an ex-employee of the firm.

Matt's Rock Hill Bakehouse is the equivalent of a «mom and pop» business (not like gigantic «family owned» businesses like Hobby Lobby or Cargill) and he «walks the walk»: paying his bakers and waitstaff $ 15 / hr while as owner he makes only a few dollars more per hour, not many multiples like most «entrepreneurs» and CEOs we deify.

Fast - forward five years and consumers have happily embraced online shopping, and mom - and - pop stores have flourished thanks to auction sites like eBay or the used - book service of Amazon.

In exploitation films, you see what the place really looked like, you see the bars and mom - and - pop restaurants.

That means he expected either Nancy or Nancy's mom to open the door and was like, «I better pop this shit open.»

It's sort of like in the small mom - and - pop - business world — if you can get your ice cream shop to stick around for 10 years, it becomes a fixture of the neighborhood.

omb's director, David Stockman, said the federal government, the nation's largest lender, can «no longer afford to manage [its] accounts like a «Mom and Pop» operation.»

The 161 charter schools operating within the district's boundaries ranged from fragile mom - and - pop organizations to those run by franchise firms like the Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools and the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP).

Our «mom and pop» school probably shops more aggressively than individual Edison schools for cleaning contracts, and we probably require less cleaning since part of our school day involves kids» doing chores like emptying the trash.

While some micro-schools are rooted in the innovation - driven tech sector, others look more like the fiercely independent mom - and - pop home - schooling collectives that prefaced the programs.

Small, independent, «mom and pop» public charter schools like Side by Side Charter School in Norwalk don't have the resources to survive this proposal.

Board member Scott Schmerelson said he often yields to the charter division's recommendations, and he gave extra credit to smaller «mom and pop» charter schools like Leadership.

While there are a number of «mom and pop» public charters, even in leafy suburbs like Princeton, many are national operators with strong track records like KIPP, Uncommon, and Mastery.

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Crushed on price by Amazon and by the wide selection of national retailers like Barnes & Noble, thousands of mom - and - pop outlets had closed up shop.

But the changes to the EU's VAT tax structure, which was intended to help mom - and - pop book shops in their woes with giants like Amazon, impacted authors as well.

When stores like the Borders chain collapsed or when B&N's sales figures plummet, concerns are raised about what ebooks and online retailing is doing to bookstores, but that discussion largely focuses on the major players, and less on the mom - and - pop physical bookstores.

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An agreement like the one with the Australian publishers would hopefully prevent the loss of more mom - and - pop bookshops that currently meet the reading needs of consumers who don't have access to a major chain book retailer.

This makes them sound like an eccentric mom - and - pop publishing house, rather than a vanity press.

I couldn't find much on them either, though, except Turner's obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cecil-turner-1328093.html This makes them sound like an eccentric mom - and - pop publishing house, rather than a vanity press.

Seventy percent of the moms and pops responding said they'd support «digital media lab (s) to create / upload new content like movies or ebooks.»

As for the small and self publishers, this will open new possibilities and could potentially bring back the mom & pop bookstores that I so dearly miss — where you could go and feel like you were more than a «customer» making a sale.

It completely ignores the fact that most of the mom and pop bookstores in this country went the way of the dodo when the big box stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders entered the market.