Bodegas: Living the American Dream
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Bodega is the Spanish word for a small neighborhood store, but in New York City, it’s a small store that plays a very large role in the community. Maria Hinojosa of NPR visits a few of the 10,000 family-run businesses that dot the city.
You know it's a bodega when you can't even see the inside of the store from outside.
So a Bodega is basically a Mom & Pop Grocery store run by immigrants from Latin America & the Middle East.
AntiMessiah 7 11s are run by immigrants.
***** But they dont have the luxury of selling anything they like, right?
Pretty much any local mom and pop store. I don't think ethnicity matters. Though each usually have general items with one or two unique specialities, food/liquor/etc exclusive that big markets don't sell. They always give me a blast from the past of nostalgia, as there pretty unchanged even with all technology nowadays.
Nowadays, most of them are run by either Dominicans or Yemenis .
Matt bodega are owned by Latinos, deli and smoke shops are owned by middle eastern
These are the places that get robbed in just about every movie set in New York City or Chicago.
In my hometown the bodega workers will pull guns and shoot right back at anyone who try’s robbing them or causing any problems . At least from what I’ve seen and all the ones around my neighborhood they don’t take nobody’s crap period .
😂😂😂 wtf
There wouldn’t be a New York City without the bodegas
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Amen
How do you run a news-segment about bodegas, but leave out the bodega cat?
I don't get why this is so amazing....is the gap between the rich and poor that wide that the rich can't understand the existence of corner stores
.....maybe, but who cares🤷♀️
Yeah I’m not understanding what Is so awe I-inspiring about literal run-of-the-mill convenience stores. we have these in East Boston and we just call them corner stores - no need to create some mysterious narrative around the most common type of establishment on the planet
Don't underestimate the ignorance of a yuppie.
I will say this there are very few convenience stores with fresh hot food in the midwest I've been to two through work (one we did landscaping for and they gave us free burritos:) the other I stopped to grab a red bull and saw a full retro diner counter in a gas station everywhere has convenience stores but typically the food is ya know 711 nachos and I enjoy those but that chili is questionable (I still eat it buy ya know)
Bodegas were begun by the first Puerto Ricans that arrived in NYC almost 100 years ago. At that early time, there weren't many, if any people who spoke Spanish, let alone somewhere where they could find their food staples, spices and ingredients. They opened food stores that catered only to them selling food products they consumed. They called these stores Bodega which is a Spanish word for Cellar because this was the place where their food was stored and sold to their communities. In the early to mid 70's most of these Bodegas were sold and bought by Dominicans who were then beginning to arrive en masse to NYC.
The dude who owns it looks like my Italian uncle lmao
These Bodegas are located in Food Deserts.
Not true, they have bodegas in Midtown Manhattan. This is NYC,B.
@@kingsittystudios2400 "Food Desert" refers to communities with retail outlets that mostly stock and sell processed foods, without much fresh veg, meat and dairy.
I understand how Diana feels. My father did not want me to run our small business so now I do what the reporter does and it’s hard work too.
God bless our bodegas we can’t survive without them
In Philly, we call it the Papi Store. 😁😁😁😁
That lil boy was too cute
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@@playerhaterr6172 you made it weird
Yesss!!! Everytime I go back to visit family, I HAVE TO get a sandwich! And everytime, the owners are awesome!!🥰
I get the sentiment of the bodega and the familiar faces who run them in those communities, but it is basically a packed convenience store with fresh made food.
Impossible to do that in my country. You'll need a separate sanitary clean tiled room with fridges to keep your eggs at 8° degrees Celcius. You will need a chefs diploma to treat food. So basically all these bodegas we had in the past went broke or were closed down by our FDA for not complying with local and national rules. It is even hard to sell only cigarettes, gazettes and beverages. You can't do lottery. So, they all close.
In Belgium communist government is against capitalism of any kine unless the rulers get their fair share in profits. Nobody can open a small shop without the obligatory professional and administrative formation. Europe is a kafkaian dictocracy. Read Das Prozess by Kafka to get a taste. Some businesses are allowed to distribute freely Chinese smartphones worth 600 USD cuz they get refunded by the state and they compete in the same market with companies that have to sell their smartphones and don't get state money. All this my government does to maintain equality, good citizenship and fair trade. Thank you.
My family has owned restaurants for over 35 years and my husband and I have run them for about 20 years ... my family said the same thing about doing something different... we wouldn’t change anything we love our restaurants and our patrons...keep your dream alive girlfriend... it’s ALL WORTH IT ... would love to visit after COVID is stomped out ✌️😌
New York City gang know the vibe at a bodega
_Wow._ Can I date Diana?
SupaEMT134 Diana marry me !!
SupaEMT134 she looks Asian (I know she is DR)
Is because Diane father own twelve bodega
In California Our Version of Bodegas are Corner stores or Liquor stores ANd are almost all owned by Arabs and sometimes Indians or Asians To be honest I never ever seen one owned by Latinos out here. Latinos mostly Own Mexican food or Latino Food product stores or Small Grocery stores in the West Coast.
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@@steveycarter9194 goat
That's why when I visit NYC, I usually get a deli sandwich at any local bodega than the known tourist trap delis around Manhattan;
This sounds like establishments that'd be common in southern California, though I've never been in one. Must have been in a different part of town. I'll keep an eye out for one next time!
uuhhh this is a east coast thing buddy
In california latinos dont have bodegas. We have carnicerias.
I LOVE THE BODEGA FOOD PYRAMID!
Pamela (Nina) love. I love her confidence and swagger.
Loved it. Welcome Maria Hinojosa. :))
Why can’t they have bodegas in every city in the country!?
Because then it loses flavor that's the unique thing about bodegas got to go get it it's not going to come to you
Even if it were to end up being some bougie corner boutique owned by Becky that tries to sell "impossible chopped cheese", bodegas would be indispensable in the food deserts that comprise of most residential areas all over America. Proly not the big cities (...cause they already have them), but in suburbs, residential parts of "highway towns" away from the main strip and the various "belts" (corn belt, rust belt, bible belts) where jobs are at their highest demand, the concept of the bodega could breathe life into a dying community.
Who knows - they may actually gain traction once people realize they don't HAVE to be owned by hispanic or middle eastern people😏. This IS America, after all...
Looks like a convenience store to me.
I walk into a bodega and it always feels sketchy. Also I dont live in a big city yet so so many bodegas.
I live in PA and we got bodegas on every single corner . They got the best hot food coffee snacks etc
If you go to a bodega get a chopped cheese (a chop cheese). You haven't experienced New York or are a real New Yorker if you haven't eaten one.
C B Walker brought me here..."This is not a bodega!"
I bought my first bong from the bodega
What I got out of this is Michael, the young customer, has a fantastic mom. He refers to Diane and Miss Diane.
50 Cent has a song called Corner Bodega
Bodegas are nice but i cant imagine living off the food there. It's all sodium laden junk food. I know they gotta sell what makes money but where's the grocery store?
you mean a convenience store?
Yes white people term, welp I need to skedaddle up on out of here
I’m here after watching in the heights
She should definitely be a business major.
in Philippines, those are called "sari-sari store"
"sari-sari" roughly translates to "variety"
These places loan out money to shady people. That's how they make most of their money.
ok mr detective
The music is great in this segment. I love me some Romeo Santos!!
Bodegas are a staple in NYC. If you took away the bodegas or changed them, the city wouldn’t be the same.
I’m a white woman and I love these bodegas
Bodega are showing that self checkouts are not the future. Some just like the social aspect of talking to the cashier
looking up Kyo Kusanagi specials and strategies brought me here.
I wonder if a big name convenience store came in like 7-Eleven etc. would it change the demographics of the people coming in there?
Every time I hear of a bodega it’s because something bad has happened there.
Which block do i find Dyana tho
Bodegas provided a link to Puerto Rico everything from the products they
carried to the towns in Puerto Rico from which they derived their
names. There are leadership roles the owners of these businesses hold in
the community. Bodegas are places where friends and
neighbors would meet up to socialize. In the past. it was the social
fabric of the Puerto Rican community in addition to serving the Hispanic
population of New York City.
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The best coffe 😂🤣🤣🤣
Here on the west coast we just call them convenience stores
They use to have a lot of corner stores, just like bodega's, in LA, bck n the day! Majority were black owned! Now most are gone! Nice how new York keeps their tradition going! Maybe 7-11 made them disappear! Well basically people sold out!
Bodega sandwiches are awesome and cheap.
I thought it was Spanish for warehouse, used for a local grocery store. No?
You're right! Bodega is Spanish for warehouse.
Before the Bodegas, there were the Jewish/Italian luncheonettes. NYC is always changing.
In Cal, the stereotype is the convenience store, like 7-11, owned and operated by Indian, Korean, Middle-Eastern men, that are often hit on by gangstas.
Jose Alba is innocent
Bodega means “warehouse”
Not neighborhood store,
At least in Mexico it is.
Robert Thorpe in el slavador as well.
La tiendita de la esquina for us in México, right
This ain't nothing but a corner store for us in Miami. I dint see what the big deal is because we had these forever
that young girl is beautiful
It's a locally owned Exxon
Chop cheese baby !!!!!!
so its 711 but owned and ran by a local
Now explain how it's a front for drugs and criminal enterprises
leaving by foot hinge pressure cloat ain't traditional
wind draft included ALWAYS
automated... man... kart weight
bodega for Northern mexico means warehouse. but went i hear bodega with caribian accent i know what they are talking about
Portoricans are the ones that call it Bodega. In D.R. the word is Colmado
Dallas Penn from The Combat Jack Show
HE AND HIS BROTHERS OWN 12 OF THEM, LOL SO THATS WHERE ALL THE DRUG PROFITS ARE GOING
Bodegas are very profitable. Most people think those businesses struggle, because that's how they're depicted in movies.
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@@gladimirsavinon104
Every bodega I’ve seen in the movies is depicted by rude employee,some sort of drug deal going on inside or outside the store and a fight. but it seems the movies are not too far off considering the news especially as of lately with so many robberies and murders.
Came here after JLos order
Diana is beautiful
In the Philippines, bodega is where we store old and broken things. So expect cobwebs, rats, spiders and roaches together with old memories when you go to our bodega. 😂😂😂
Thank you TACO 🌮 people.
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It’s basically a dukan
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Working since she was six isn't that ilegl
Land of opportunity
OMG bacon egg and cheese
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Bodega actually means "storage" liears
They scare me
Thirty years in America and still can’t speak English
Neither can trump
Why would they need to?
It's not legally required to speak any specific language in America
30 yrs and she dont speak english
Apparently you don’t either it is speak not speek
She “doesn’t.”
I don’t
You don’t
He/She/It doesn’t
We don’t
They don’t
You know...English!
She doesn’t!
No national language. No legal requirement
It’s called a deli
So these men are just Money laundering. Just making everything community legit. Hats off too you
Suffers from diabetes? You guys have definitely been hit in the head. Mind your own damn business
WRONG!!!! Bodega is a cellar. A wine cellar is the most common way to use the word. Tienda is a small store or shop.
That's also wrong. . . It means warehouse. . .chill
so child slavery is ok again?
English in America
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I’m calling ICE😂
Bodega is a warehouse not a convenience store. Just another example of Puerto Ricans messing up the Spanish language and the east coast following suit.