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This was the year we all came to appreciate San Francisco’s little corner stores and bodegas. They were the ones who had toilet paper (at least more often than the bigger shops). They were the ones who kept the aisles stocked, the lines slower, and the smiles on our faces. …
A start-up called Bodega recently caused mayhem on Twitter and in the media for trying to put corner stores out of business. The solution? A five-foot-wide pantry box filled with nonperishable items that you can unlock with an app on your phone. The company has made San Francisco its testing lab and already installed a few of these boxes in various locations. For those of you who don’t know, the word “bodega” is a term frequently used on the East Coast to refer to what San Franciscans typically call corner stores.
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