Bodega Bay is an otherwise unremarkable stop on a remarkable stretch of Hwy 1.
Omega, on the other hand, is considered a bodega and therefore falls on the state's turf.
Not surprisingly, the comparisons are always favorable to Bodega, which is owned by Wal-Mart's Mexican arm.
La Cova Fumada, a family-run, hole in the wall bodega, is rarely less than bursting with locals.
But if you can walk down to the 7-Eleven or a bodega one door over, what's the impact?
New Yorkers most often purchase sugary beverages in the grocery store, at a corner bodega, or a chain convenience store.
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Hungry, I find a bodega that is kept alive thanks to a noisy generator that sits on the sidewalk outside.
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Because they are cheap and can be bought as singles at the bodega for easy bagged, semi-legal consumption down by the waterfront.
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Turned out both had entrepreneurial roots: Valdes' Cuban parents had run a bodega in Chicago, Bayless' folks a barbecue joint in Oklahoma.
Foot traffic funnels east past a popular friend chicken joint, a bustling beauty shop and neighborhood teens flirting and gossiping outside a bodega.
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Fernando Mateo, a spokesman for the Bodega Association of the United States, said he expects independently owned shops to take a big hit.
Lower margins could be offset by packing the selection with private-label merchandise, a strategy Walmart employed successfully in Mexico with its Bodega concept.
These are modeled after Walmex's bare-bones, cut-price Bodega Aurrera store format.
Or perhaps you're going to be buying very calorie-dense foods that may not be healthy for you because that's what is available in the local bodega.
Not surprisingly, the comparisons are always favorable to Bodega, which is owned by Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people )'s Mexican arm.
The fire in Bodega Bay was a montage of mattes of houses, smoke and birds, with only the fire, in the backlot at Universal, really burning.
At each location a different bodega hosts a delicious tasting.
But venture five miles south of Bodega Bay on Hwy 1 to the tiny town of Bodega and you will find two Birds icons: the schoolhouse and the church along Bodega Lane.
Investigators looking for evidence in the suspected murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz returned Wednesday to the Manhattan building where police believe a former bodega worker murdered the missing boy decades ago.
Just inside the entrance to the Bodega Aurrera store in Mexico City's lower-class Naucalpan neighborhood sit two shopping carts filled with the same sampling of products--things like Kellogg's Corn Flakes and a dozen eggs.
"When people stop going to a bodega to buy a soda, they're not going to buy the chips, they're not going to buy the beer, because they're not going to make two stops, " he said.
When you the tour the kitchen and the wine bodega -- as you inevitably will if you secure a reservation at El Celler -- you will quickly realise that all three men were born with a culinary gift that they continue to develop.
Wine Tour Urbano currently takes place in the historic Monserrat district, offering tour participants the opportunity to taste velvety pinot noirs by a Patagonian winery in the lantern-lit cloisters of a 1700s Jesuit church or rich malbecs by a Mendoza bodega at a frescoed, 19th-century pharmacy.
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