Any business with a lax business model, allowing only for the owner(s) to maintain a middle-class or lower lifestyle. Sometimes dishonest practices including but not limited to:
tax evasion,
insurance fraud, and forced
child labor; are utilized to keep the business profitable.
Most
mom and pop stores are
subsistence businesses. Notice how they
whine about the local Walmart, yet hypocritically resell Walmart products in their stores.