Small Business in the USA is so restrictive until you open your eyes to what an actual small business is. 100 Employees or less isn't SMALL, The photo on the right is a storefront in front of a home, and very common in the third world. Profits are thin, but it supplement income by employing cnt...
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We were in El Salvador last summer. Many roadside tiendas run by families.
Interesting thing is that we observed an entire network of bicycle and motorcycle based deliverers in the early morning. Very distributed and decentralized - I imagine the transporters are getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to be at some sort of farmer market or getting straight from growers, but they're making fresh deliveries in time for the tiendas to have food ready for the morning rush hour business.
It appeared to us to be a pretty well-oiled machine operating independent of government or corporations, and although nobody seems to be getting rich, a lot of people are making an honest living. Everyone seems to be hustling there. We were told most tiendas are tax exempt by virtue of the government just not bothering to enforce the laws down to their level.
Yeah, we would buy fish, chicken, and pork in the Wet Market in the Philippines just before daylight, much of it is fresher then, and the flies need sunlight.
There are also people selling from motorcycles as a one man business. Where our house is, 5K from town, you can go another 15K up in the Bukid (Mountain/country) So these gus will come by and supply Sari-Sari stores and individual customers as well.
Even children roam around when out of school or on weekends, holidays.. They typically sell snacks or fruits.
Some people specialize in a certain snack like sticky rice made into a candy wrapped in banana leaf,
Freezers are rare in the countryside, so there is money to be made selling ice. A cucumber sized chunk of Ice in a plastic bag. My wife's Nanay (Mother) went to the Elementary school with Ice Candy, which is powdered milk or koolaid with other ingredients, chocolate, coconut, fruit. etc.. She was charging 2 cents, and she might sell between 30-50 a day. These would typically be half an American Cool Pop sized.
Very hard to buy anything wholesale, you call up the company and they quote you retail.
I'll maintain that corporations as a form of business, need to go away. The further you get away from dealing in your neighborhood, the lower quality and higher the price gets.