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On a scale of two-aisle bodega to Whole Foods Market, most city food-shopping options divide along economic class lines, with people generally sticking to their own neighborhoods when it’s time to feed their families.
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These include bodega-style grocery stores, salons and casual fitness options.
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Wiretaps showed that de la Cruz was the organization's leader and ran the Farmington Avenue bodega used by the drug trafficking organization, according to the complaint.
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Find a market, bodega, bakery or food shop of some kind.
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On June 10, 2011, her 17-year-old son, Justin Reyes, and a friend were shot outside a North Philadelphia bodega at Sixth and Norris.
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Castro arrived in Cleveland in the 1950s and opened the mom-and-pop bodega not long after.
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A British artist has recreated the contents of a city bodega (boh-DAY’-guh) entirely in felt — the soft material usually favored by the school-going set.
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Malave has ventured out into the neighborhood, visiting Little River and stopping at the bodega on the block.
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Apothecaries, bodegas, and boutiques
Apothecary, bodega, and boutique may not look very similar, but they are all related both in meaning and in origin. Each of these words can be traced back to a Latin word for “storehouse” (apotheca), and each one refers in English to a retail establishment of some sort. Although bodega initially meant “a storehouse for wine,” it now most commonly refers to a grocery store in an urban area, especially one that specializes in Hispanic groceries. Boutique has also taken on new meanings: its first sense in English (“a small retail store”) is still current, but it now may also denote “a small company that offers highly specialized products or services.” Of the three words, apothecary has changed the least; it has gone from referring solely to the person who sells drugs or medicines to also naming the store where such goods are sold.
Origin and Etymology of bodega
Spanish, from Latin apotheca storehouse — more at apothecary
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