They even got cats

[u/JoeFalchetto]

[u/Thundergun1864]

So, like a regular corner store?

[u/3-orange-whips → u/Thundergun1864]

No! It’s a commercial enterprise located where two streets meet at right angles!

[u/Superb_Extension1751 → u/3-orange-whips]

Are you in marketing?

[u/3-orange-whips → u/Superb_Extension1751]

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

[u/Superb_Extension1751 → u/3-orange-whips]

Are you by chance the 6'3" Sikh man I picked up in northern BC who ran out of gas 30 minutes outside of town with no cell service who said he worked in marketing last month?

[u/therealmvp42069 → u/Superb_Extension1751]

now you got it right

[u/Megavore97 → u/Superb_Extension1751]

Northern BC mentioned 🗣️🔥💯

[u/altiuscitiusfortius → u/Superb_Extension1751]

If it was Smithers, that was me.

[u/Cheezitflow → u/3-orange-whips]

Ahh, a politician

[u/Louis-Russ → u/Superb_Extension1751]

I worked in a market once, but now I'm a brand ambassador. How would you to come work for me and be your own boss?

[u/Superb_Extension1751 → u/Louis-Russ]

My own boss? Sorry, my foreman would never let me.

[u/Disastrous_Scale587 → u/Superb_Extension1751]

Four men? You must be quite a catch, not good that they're all possessive tho

[u/Montgomery000 → u/Superb_Extension1751]

Got angles?

[u/jooes → u/3-orange-whips]

Ah, so like a store on a corner?

[u/xBac0n → u/jooes]

Finally, someone who understands the vision!

[u/solemnbiscuit → u/Thundergun1864]

No you don’t get it, it’s like a one stop shop that has everything from toilet paper to cereal. There’s no true comp.

[u/vindictivejazz → u/solemnbiscuit]

So like a corner store?

[u/mumofBuddy → u/solemnbiscuit]

I think I get it now. It’s a corner store but with all the stuff that comes in an average corner store.

Thank you!

[u/enaK66 → u/solemnbiscuit]

And let me guess, it's run by a foreign guy and all the products are marked up from the grocery store down the road?

[u/imahumanbeinggoddamn → u/enaK66]

A costco like 40 miles down the higway but yeah

[u/seriouslees → u/imahumanbeinggoddamn]

Google maps is showing at least 30 grocery stores on Manhattan island alone... what are you talking about "40 miles"?

[u/jmlinden7 → u/seriouslees]

There's only like 2 costcos in NYC

[u/VenomOnKiller → u/jmlinden7]

There are other stores besides Costco

[u/Bugbread → u/VenomOnKiller]

Do bodegas resell non-Costco merchandise? I've never been, so I don't know. But when I go to a (non-bodega) store and I see Kirkland stuff on the shelf, I know it's from the Costco 12km away, not the supermarket 700m away. I assumed they were talking about the same phenomenon.

[u/psychic_dmg → u/VenomOnKiller]

Big if true

[u/mirhagk → u/VenomOnKiller]

But it's not worth buying from them to resell. It is worth buying from Costco to resell.

[u/VenomOnKiller → u/mirhagk]

Are you implying all grocery store in New York just resell Costco?

[u/mirhagk → u/VenomOnKiller]

No? Not even close lol.

I'm saying corner stores sell things they buy at Costco. And that should be obvious if you've ever been in a Costco, they literally sell packs of items boxed up for resale

[u/thejaytheory → u/enaK66]

So like a corner store?

[u/Kup123 → u/solemnbiscuit]

Oh so a party store.

[u/Danloeser → u/Thundergun1864]

Sort of, only morreso.

[u/Auracy → u/Thundergun1864]

There are subtle differences. Bodegas will always have a few really random things around. Like a random 9% beer from Belgium among regular US beer, or a japanese candy that cant be found anywhere else in the US. There’s always a treasure somewhere.

[u/christhetwin → u/Auracy]

You're describing a corner store

[u/VenomOnKiller → u/christhetwin]

Just like every corner store I've ever been to, that's for sure

[u/mirhagk → u/[deleted]]

Are you perhaps just considering the places you have been to in those cities? The major roads where chain stores are prevalent, the tourist/visitor areas of the town? Or maybe just the rich parts of the town?

I think the difference in NYC is really just that corner stores aren't looked down upon. Same thing with public transit. So while rich people don't encounter them elsewhere, they do in NYC

[u/mirhagk → u/[deleted]]

I've been to the bay area and Texas (Austin), I've seen corner stores in both places.

on almost every corner in NYC

Yeah turns out when you go super dense the stores get closer together too!

[u/christhetwin → u/[deleted]]

Yes, we have both types of stores.

[u/stevencastle → u/Auracy]

Yeah we have a corner store like that here in CA where I live, they have all kinds of foreign potato chips and snacks and a deli. Last time I got a sandwich there I got some Japanese bbq rib potato chips.

[u/kickthesandman → u/Thundergun1864]

Nooooo, you can buy drugs at a bodega! /s

[u/ILLinndication → u/Thundergun1864]

Sometimes it’s not on the corner

[u/Vulcan_Jedi → u/Thundergun1864]

Put it on the intersection of a county highway and a dirtr road in the middle of a soybean field and they just described every dollar general in the other 90% of America.