At Diana Market in Hyde Park, MA, a young Bengali couple rapidly adapts to running a business in the United States.
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What makes one want to buy a broken-down bodega and transform it into a successful business–especially when you already have one? “It was a piece…
Leave a Comment7/31/2011: Jahangir and Rokeya Kabir, owners of Well Foods Plus, have been getting a lesson on how to fight for their livelihood. Their landlord, Jim…
Leave a Comment5/25/2010: Sanjay Patel and his wife Devyani have been in the United States for about twenty years. Originally they come from the state of Gujarat,…
Leave a CommentThe first question that may occur to you as you enter Leo’s Grocery is: who’s Leo? “Leo is the friend of my father, Marcelino Moreno,”…
Leave a CommentSo what color do you paint a bodega? You want it to be eye-catching without being garish. But sometimes a bodega’s color scheme is a…
Leave a Comment“It looks like the old west!” was Romulo Ortiz’s comment when I gave him the above photograph I’d taken of Ortiz Grocery in Mattapan, MA.…
Leave a CommentGood news! A new version of my Cuban Shopkeepers article published. SPECIAL! Cuban Shopkeeper Photographs on Sale! Here is the article as it appears in…
Leave a CommentKrunal Patel is self taught, not just in convenience store ownership and management, but in another venture that earns him spare money as he learns.
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