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But even for a company used to the barbs of critics who say it pays stingy wages, bullies suppliers and steamrollers mom-and-pop stores, the allegations are a potent challenge to an evangelical business culture forged in the poverty of backwoods Arkansas by its founder Sam Walton.

尽管沃尔玛已经习惯了各种苛刻的批评，如薪资吝啬、欺压供应商、排挤社区小店，但对于沃尔玛创始人山姆•沃尔顿（Sam Walton）在阿肯色州（Arkansas）贫穷落后地区建立起的福音式商业文化，上述指控仍然有可能构成巨大的挑战。

Big corporations are responsible for the death of mom and pop stores.

大公司要对零售店的消亡负责.

As happened with Apple's iPhone, mom-and-pop electronics resellers in China have discovered there's a business to be made out of the arbitrage of buying items not yet available here and offering them at a markup online.

与苹果公司（Apple）的iPhone一样，中国的小型电子产品经销商们已发现，通过购买中国国内尚未销售的商品，然后在网上加价出售，这也是一桩不错的生意。

Some projects fail to recognize this difference and never recover ( just try to deploy a J2EE server at a mom-and-pop startup).

一些项目没有意识到这种差异，也从来没有试图修正（只要试试在仅供家庭使用的机器上部署J2EE服务器就知道了）。

That's why employers, from international non-profits to the mom-and-pop stores down the road, want employees able to think globally.

这就为何大到国际非赢利组织，小到路边小店，都希望雇员具有国际化思维。

Analysts examining the effect of the oil price's precipitous decline on companies should spare a thought for stripper well operators, the mom-and-pop businesses that coax the last trickles of crude from long-ago drilled holes.

那些研究油价大幅下挫对企业影响的分析人士们，应该关注一下那些低产油井（stripper well）运营商们了，他们一般都是小作坊式经营，做的就是从很久以前钻探的油井中采出最后一批原油。

Trendy, expensive restaurants and bars have replaced mom-and-pop shops.

时髦的、昂贵的餐馆和酒吧已经取代了家庭小铺。

If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars ： Mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies ．

没有几十亿美元，就别想进军汽车行业：夫妻汽车制造商不大可能打败汽车行业的大公司。

The shops that were destroyed were mostly mom-and-pop & n bsp; type of small business.

他们因为连小本生意都 荡然无存 而更加贫穷.