Mom-and-Pop

Mom-and-Pop (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of mom-and-pop.
   • 1972 August 24, Virginia Payette, “Little Tourist Homes Have Great Appeal”, in The Lincoln Star, 70th year, number 281, Lincoln, Neb., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

     That’s how we discovered New England: back roads, Mom-and-Pop diners, historic markers and all.

   • 2003, Alston Chase, “Ah, Wilderness!”, in Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 1 (The Unabomber: Crimes and Questions), pages 102–103:

     At first glance, Lincoln seemed caught in a time warp—a place of 1930s tourist cabins and Mom-and-Pop diners where one could get honest-to-goodness milk shakes, made in a blender with real ice cream.

   • 2008 June 14, “Our Opinion: Dreaming of Wal-Mart”, in The Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Heights–Downtown edition, volume 31, number 24, Brooklyn, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 3:

     But put a Target, JC Penney or Wal-Mart in an existing downtown, and you draw even more traffic to the merchants occupying the adjacent streets. Then, instead of killing Mom-and-Pop stores, they’d present the Mom and Pops with enlarged opportunities for profit.

Mom-and-Pop (plural Mom-and-Pops)

1. Alternative form of mom and pop.
   • 1976, Charles R. Jackson, quotee, “The Southern Caucus Testifies”, in Patricia Maloney Markun, editor, compiled by Michael E. Canes, Witnesses for Oil: The Case Against Dismemberment: Congressional Testimony and Papers, Washington, D.C.: American Petroleum Institute, →ISBN, “Vertical Divestiture” section, page 164:

     The new retail marketing companies, being highly profit-oriented, will be interested in the “cream” of the marketplace. The “cream” will not be the Mom-and-Pops and corner service stations of rural Chesterfield County.

   • 2014, Michael Domino, “A Gypsy Night”, in Park Avenue to Park Bench: Short Stories, New York, N.Y.: Conscience Circle, →ISBN, page 44:

     Eventually, it actually happened as the neighborhood improved, rents got jacked-up and the Mom-and-Pops and importer/exporters gave way to restaurants, bars and coffee shops. The “hood” had now become hip.

   • 2015, Katha Sheehan, “The Saga of the Shoe”, in Members of Lamplighters Writers Group, Alligator Tales, Homestead, Fla.: Sweetwater Publishers, →ISBN, page 208:

     Wall Street was making a market in footwear but Main St. was seeing stores close. First, the Mom-and-Pops. They said the overhead was eating them up.