It is said that a picture tells a thousand words. If that is the case, then I believe that a place tells a thousand stories. Take, for example, grocery stores. The products inside the stores tell stories that you might not actually be aware of.
In a sense. a grocery store is similar to a secret museum.
It’s where you can grab and squeeze and not-at-all-weirdly smell indigenous produce. The fishmonger runs an aquarium. The butcher is a zookeeper. But groceries also hoard the culture’s guilty pleasures…
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Grocery stores have the gritty, hustling authenticity of a bodega or street cart with the propriety and promise of Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. And they offer a tourist-free paradise for people-watching, especially the kind of locals tourists never meet — parents, the elderly, 9-to-5ers, paycheck-to-paycheck poor.
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Source: neatorama