bodega

So yeah, you can go into the bodega and pretend to be American.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

After holding up an egg-cheese-and-jalapeño sandwich from a local shop, he announced, “I look forward to delivering for every single bodega owner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Mr. Marte started working as a bodega worker at 18.

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

Later, when she went into the bodega to buy olive oil, she saw Poli sorting tomatoes in the window.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers

You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Private mini-markets and clothing stores with well-stocked shelves have largely supplanted state "bodegas" and ration books in the past five years since SMEs were introduced.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

Lost will be the ungentrified bodegas that celebrate neighborhood regulars by thumbtacking Polaroid photos of them to the wall and let customers buy sandwich bread on credit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

By night, darkness enveloped the streets, but electricity and reparto music bloomed sporadically from bodegas and bars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

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