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Bodegas (media.piefed.world)
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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's all about the relationship you cultivate with the owners and operators of the bodega.

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 63 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Soooo, same as any corner store?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

Depends on the locale, but I believe so.

Where I grew up the market had been cornered, so to speak, by a small city level chain. 26 stores for a proper city and it's ~6 suburbs.

You got the good food, and some extras like fresh donuts and ice cream from their bakery and creamery, but the staff were almost exclusively university kids with weird schedules you would never see more than a few times.

It was weird for a minute when I lived near a corner store where the owner also was just at the register and talked to people. (To be fair, he was also a university student, he just wanted to let the family manage the family business while he became a pathologist of all things. )

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And their Bodega cat.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

The most important part of the Bodega!!!

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago

Yep. It’s simple and human. That’s it. That’s the magic.