Philadelphia Bodegas

Bodega: The importance of the corner store in the Puerto Rican barrio Today in several neighborhoods of northeastern United States there are still remnants that tie predominate Puerto Rican communities together. In these communities you won't find much room for big businesses. On the contrary, here several of the corner stores (called bodegas) offer more of an impact than other larger businesses. In these smaller stores you can sometimes buy goat meat, mangoes and even “…

…native to the island of Puerto Rico and it's culture. Bodegas also increase the usage of bilingual language skills. Together with an increase in education these corner stores create informal networks for on the job training which both increases population growth and skills useful in lager corporate businesses if needed. Bodegas have been around for a long while and I believe as long as there are people then there will be a need for them.