4 Business Lessons You Can Learn from Mom and Pop Stores

It’s about personality, personal service, and a middle finger up to poor big-business practices

Charlie Brown
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readJul 29, 2021

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Me and Sam Dixon Brown outside our mom and pop store. Image courtesy of Fox and Bear Photography

My mom and pop wine store gave me and my husband a decent salary. It employed local people on competitive wages. It sold ethical goods. It was generally well-loved in the local community and known across the…

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Writer of opinions. Wine & food pro. Editor of Rooted, a Medium food & drink pub. Niche-avoidant. Also at thesaucemag.substack.com