bodega
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So yeah, you can go into the bodega and pretend to be American.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“We really want to work with the bodega owners,” Ms. Pak said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The sequence in Episode 2, when the bodega is raided and people are dragged away by the Anti-Vigilante Task Force, that was filmed before Los Angeles, before Minnesota — before all of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Becky Wisdom, who rescues cats in New York, warned that lifting the threat of fines could remove "leverage" to encourage bodega owners to better care for the animals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
It had been forever since I had done it, but I felt like I was ready; plus, I was tired of eating burned bodega bagels.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
With no money left to import goods and resell them at around a tenth of their market value, the bodegas are being replaced with grocery stores that charge close to market prices.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
This means the Mamdami Marts will be able to undercut prices at the private grocery stores and bodegas in their neighborhoods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
It was near midnight, and he was gliding between stalls and bodegas, activating the city’s Muslim community—roughly 9 percent of New Yorkers—with his now signature mix of warmth and urgency.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2025
When Boaz arrived in the East Village, there was nothing open except bagel shops, bodegas, and grocery stores.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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