why have all mom & pop stores dissappeared?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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!

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.)

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

do no longer ignore that rule for taking authentic/pretend quizzes back in college? If the question incorporates words like continuously or in no way, then it truly is continuously pretend. yet i might want to assert you need to oftentimes attempt to patronize community kin owned businesses except the products and amenities are truly inferior or the costs are extremely inflated. i stumble upon it properly worth paying slightly more desirable to bypass to a smaller shop the position all the employers are time-honored to me and are more desirable proper in a position to assist me because i'm time-honored to them -- no longer basically one of 1000's of shoppers. i know that my community espresso shop will no longer "pull" it truly is area and pinkslip the comprehensive crew if "projected income" fall lower than a particular arbitrary aspect set with the help of a few company goons on yet another planet. and that i know that the income generated with the help of my patronage will specially be spent proper the following in my own community, no longer on Planet Goon, and honestly no longer socked away in some Cayman Island monetary employer to stay away from paying taxes into the U. S. treasury. i'm sorry i do not have the link reachable, yet some authorities company suggested that small businesses play a higher position in coming up jobs and prosperity than do great businesses. Mobil Mart may be Shell or BP next month, yet proper Bakery has been doing company interior an analogous area and owned with the help of an analogous kin for 30+ years. They see me arising the sidewalk at 7 and with the help of the time I walk contained in the door, any my "time-honored" is waiting for me at my trendy table. The 14 365 days previous who poured my espresso 20 years in the past may be manager in 20 years. wish i'm alive to make certain it!

Answer 9

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 .

Answer 10

Wiped out by chain stores like Home Depot, Lowe's,Walmart, Target and Dollar stores.