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small business
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small business npiccola impresa


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Take note that for retail businesses, mom-and-pop shops, restaurants, bars, and billiard halls, the majority of their customers are local residents who patronize the establishment on a regular basis.
But as in any industry, these mom-and-pop shops are finding themselves competing against a wave of national chains, in including EZCORP, which has 670 shops nationwide and in Mexico, and First Cash Financial, which has operates about 500 stores in the United States and Mexico.
As a teetotaler, I'm not really sure I care, but I am concerned about the small mom-and-pop shops that struggled with our decision last year to go to Sunday sales," said Groff, referring to the bill that allowed liquor stores to begin opening on Sundays last July.
 
 
 
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