INACTIVE
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There are a few still around in older neighborhoods but the grocery chains with their shopper cards and budget to advertise have taken over. Let's face it alot of chains buy megavolumes of merchandise that is sold out in no time at all while the smaller stores have few selections and higher prices. In the old days, these "mom and pop stores" serviced people without transportation and offered personal attention, often weekly credit, and gave and received loyalty. These days are loyalties are to who has the best pricing. We have cars and can shop from store to store. We have coupons to further our savings where those older stores didn't accept coupons or debit cards and such because of the costs. In short, Mom and Pop had to merge with the big boys in the industry or were lost in the dust. The ones remaining today make their money off beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets instead of produce, fresh meats and cocoa puffs. |
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Camarogirl67
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Huge warehouse type stores (such as, yes, Wal-Mart) are a big reason why Mom & Pop stores can't compete. Today's market is smaller with less competition, and the M&P stores just can't keep up with the huge chains that are able to buy in huge massive quantities that keep their overhead costs down. Also, people don't shop at the Mom & Pop stores that DO still manage to survive. When was the last time anyone bought a book at a smaller bookstore or a cd at a local music store? Usually we go to Borders, Barnes & Noble or Best Buy. |
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nas88caror 300
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wal-mart |
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Lonesome Dove
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they cant buy as large of quantities as the larger chain stores and this causes the "Mom & Pop" stores to charge higher prices and people will go for the least expensive and there is a much larger selection at the big chain stores |
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boilerrat
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In my neighborhood it is due to Wal mart and their aggressive pricing structure. |
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just browsin
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They can't compete with Walmart. |
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Flamingo
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The reason is called Wal-Mart. |
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shipfitter_sjd
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Ask Andrew Young (former US Ambassador to the United Nations) the former spokesperson for Walmart (and key lobbyist).
When former Jimmy Carter UN Ambassador Young told the African American weekly Los Angeles Sentinel on Aug. 18, 2006, that Jewish, Korean and Arab grocers in LA "...ripped off [the African American community. Those are the people who have been overcharging us," Young was quoted as saying, "selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. First it was the Jews, then it was the Koreans and now its the Arabs. Very few black people own those stores." At the moment he spoke, Young was serving as an official spokesman for Walmart Stores. Young's statement was prompted by an off-the-cuff question fired at him by the Sentinel reporter who asked about Walmart's displacing mom and pop stores whenever they build a new store. He prefaced his remark against hand-to-mouth shop owners by saying he thought Walmart should run them out of business just as "...they ran the mom-and-pop stores out of my neighborhood." (His words were more than just a vague, subtle hint that blacks should spend their money at Walmart Food Stores where the bread isn't stale, the meat isn't bad and the vegetables aren't wilted.) |
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Chris N
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The ANTI CHRIST CALLED WALMART ... Boycott them or are whole economy will be working overseas . The good thing is China is poison there's people and land @ such a fast rate within a few years thing will be made back in the USA . Because the smog and health problem they are causing with the pollution . |
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Tabor
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Because they have not evolved to be the cheapest and most specialized....mom and pops cannot provide the best customer service...the best products and so on. |
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pcheesewhiz
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Suppliers give big discounts to retail stores that buy in bulk. The more you buy from a supplier, the less you pay. Mom and pop stores can't do that whereas big chain stores can. They simply buy mass quantities and then redistribute them to their various store locations. As an example, Mom and pop stores can't afford to buy a thousand lawn mowers at a time. They have no place to store them and cannot afford to have that much money tied up in inventory. Additionally, to buy in bulk, you have to quickly sell what you buy since all stores pay an inventory tax to the government. Chain stores quickly sell their inventories since they have so many outlet locations. |
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poet_by_nature
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Because big businesses have taken over. The consumer finds these stores convenient and thus goes the mom and pop stores which do not retail in varying merchandise. Mega is the way to go these days. Everything is big and grand which omits the personal touch. It is really us to us consumers to boycot these chains otherwise our complaints are in vain. |
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Chico Infierno
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Wiped out by chain stores like Home Depot, Lowe's,Walmart, Target and Dollar stores. |
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detecting_it
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My opinion. "Mom and Pop" stores cannot buy in volume enough to drive their costs down enough to compensate for the overhead. There should, in my opinion, be a cost relief to small business owners who aren't a threat to the large corporations so that they may still survive in the smaller, remote markets. |
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d&N
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Yes the Wal-Martization (!) is a global phenomenon. It is similar in Australia as I am sure it is in most westernized countries.
How it works here is that a couple of big stores such as Safeway have teamed up with the gas companies and offer a discount of 4c per litre on their fuel.
Stupidly people think they are saving money on their already high priced gas and don't realize the cost of their groceries is higher as a result to subsidize the discounted fuel.
Or the supermarket chains have whats called 'loss leaders' where they have 'specials' on certain items. This entices customers away from their local stores to save a few pennies but they end paying for it in gas anyway because these giant supermarkets are always in the boondocks!
The thing that gets to me is that people are being hoodwinked into thinking they are saving money. At the end of the day the customer always loses while being duped that its all about greater choice! |
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Murfdigidy
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They cant compete with manufacturers at larger retail stores because they get such a better price buying in bulk. |
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shire_maid
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I could give you many reasons, but instead I'll just say, I miss them too! |
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