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    When  I was growing up circa 1950’s, you has one Bakery one luncheonette one Pizzeria  one Chinese takeout in a neighborhood ,Today in a span or radius of 2 miles you can go to a dozen stores to play lotto , buy Pizza or what have you . nothing has the resale value as it did anymore  , you can’t close down even for 1 day because people go elsewhere and you loose or then share their trade with another store, how sad that a retailer can’t even close for a religious or national Holiday or  death in a family without feeling the big pinch  Mom & Pop Stores Going To The  America will Buy a piece of property no cost to high, demolish the existing structure and rebuild  and rebuild strip mall  or building at an astronomical cost   lets say a Drug  store or what have you. how can you compete against a giant like this ?

 A Mom & Pop simlply can not.the future you may only see pizza huts or Dominoes, Pizza still around as rents and the outright refusal by big corporations  to sign  leases with a Mom &pops;  So be prepared to see a new breed of retailer around in the next 10 yrs. Mom & Pop Stores Going To The Wayside   making way for in. to corporations to open  their outlets . When  I was growing up circa 1950’s, you has one Bakery one luncheonette one Pizzeria  one Chinese takeout in a neighborhood ,Today in a span or radius of 2 miles you can go to a dozen stores to play lotto , buy Pizza or what have you . nothing has the resale value as it did anymore  , you can’t close down even for 1 day because people go elsewhere and you loose or then share their trade with another store, how sad that a retailer can’t even close for a religious or national Holiday or  death in a family without feeling the big pinch

 Mom &; Pop Stores Going To The  wayside in  America, big corporations  will Buy a piece of property no cost to high, demolish the existing structure and rebuild  and rebuild strip mall  or building at an astronomical cost   lets say a Drug  store or what have you. how can you compete against a giant like this ? If one unit of a corporation goes under ,they don;t care they have hundreds other s to tow the compact line,A Mom &; Pop simlply can not.In the future you may only see pizza huts or Dominoes, Pizza still around as rents and the outright refusal by big corporations  to sign  leases with a Mom & Pops. So be prepared to see a new breed of retailer around in the next 10 yrs.end

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