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Small Business
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A type of enterprise that is independently owned and operated, has few employees, does a small amount of business, and is not predominant in its area of operation.

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Sole Proprietorship.



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The mom-and-pop supplier of commodities will never be able to compete with a Wal-Mart.
The emerging conflict over the building proposed on a 12,500-square-foot lot now occupied by a vegetable stand comes as the city lays out plans to remake the two-mile stretch of mom-and-pop businesses between downtown and North Hollywood into a quaint, tree-lined shopping district.
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