The bodegas are ground zero in the battle for socio-economic justice in the ‘hood. If you have the means to consume goods elsewhere you prah’lee should. If you come across anything remotely healthy in the bodega then you best believe you are going to pay a premium for that item.
Today we are going to take a look at Tropicana juice products. They distribute all kinds of citrus juice based products. Nothing is more popular for me than their ‘pulp free’ orange juice. I don’t care for the pulp inside of my juice products since the pulp material usually means less of the fructose laden sugar water.
Here’s the catch now… Tropicana’s distributors are delivering 14oz. juice containers to the bodegas while charging these stores the same unit prices. That is less than 25% of the content of their former 20oz. cardboard container.
Even the price for the 16oz. bottle of Tropical Fantasy mango drink has been raised to 59 cents. What’s next? Orange drink ‘quarter water’ costing 30 cents? The ‘hood needs economic justice.
Am I not getting it: “Tropicana’s distributors are delivery 14oz. juice containers to the bodegas while charging these stores the same unit prices. ”
…are delivering 14oz….?
Man that is messed up! I wonder what has caused them to increase the prices of the juice? All that stuff is synthetic and there is no off season for makin juice in the hood. More questions about the hood economics need to be raised. Why are there liquor stores in every corner of the hood, but not in high class or various middle class areas? Is the mayor really trying to help the poorer people in the community unite together to help themselves? Are the most wealthy people extracting the current communities labor and people for their personal gain while not giving back?
Dallas, keep asking questions, and yee shall find the answers. As soon as you find the answers and start blowin up on the i.C tip, you’ll get shot like MLK, JFK, and other progressive leaders. It’ll all be worth it!
RaYz,
Thx for catching my typos. My problem is that I pay my editor with weed. My problem is that I am my editor.
Inflation is making everything more expensive, especially food these days. You should drink a nasty vanilla nutrament instead. The pulp is good for you anyways.
Tthey need frozen orange juice concentrate from either Miami or from like Brazil, either way they need to ship it up to NY somehow. Oil is flirting with $100 a barrel so that means it costs more to ship. Also maybe it’s cold in Florida and the orange crop is weaker.
fun fact: number one citrus export to florida from california = oranges. number one citrus export to california from florida = oranges. ours are good for eating. theirs are good for drinking. none of this looks good for new york i am afraid.
Just another example of the spiraling decline on the American economy. Why should I worried the argument for Intelligent Design in school when the cost of nutrients to get up and function and the cost of fuel to get to my place where I contribute to the tax pool grow more and more prohibitive? We’re constantly being marginalized by getting decreasing amounts of product for increasing capital. I could really give a fuck about religion in school, the conservative Right, and all these idealistic bogeymen that both sides and Bill Maher are trying to scare me about when I’m reduced to sifting thru the couch for orange juice money and forced to consider stockpiling foreign currency in my shoebox stash.
PS…
Case in point:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/01/14/2008-01-14_cost_of_milk_jumps_36.html
Yo, the bodegas usually sell poor quality produce and all-around poor quality crap. My friend recently told me that my neighborhood appears to be in the process of being gentrified. Now sure people will complain about the negatives, BUT slowly but surely the corner spots have a high quality selection and health food stores are popping up. I’m not mad at that.
^DJ Rayz, why are there more liquor stores in the hood? Simple, because of supply and demand. Mofos want to drink till their liver quiver.
C’mon, Vee –
The reason for the high number of liquor stores in the hood is a bit more complicated than “supply and demand.” Alcohol is heavily regulated on all levels – Fed, state and local.
There is a “demand” for liquor all over. In some areas, however, the rest of the community (neighbors, landowners, other businesses, etc.) have enough political power to ensure that liquor stores keep a low profile. (fewer stores, less outdoor advertising, etc)
In other areas, the community has less power and the liquor distributors are free to allow “supply and demand” to do its thing.
P-City, I here ya . . . but people still purchase the product. It’s just like the government (Fed, State and Local) regulate and curtail in the best interest of each community. Some more than others when it comes to alcohol.
No doubt, I here you but . . . people are still purchasing liquor.
Man, get out the bodega already! Sheesh.
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I don’t go for that inflation jazz…coming from a place where you can go from the heart of the city to the county in a few minutes, I know the deal. Neighborhoods make the price. The same chain of markets in a poor area stil charges more then it’s counterpart just outside the city, even when it’s counter part has a dry cleaners, a starbucks, vegan and kosher sections.
So going to a “corner store” here is like asking to for anal rape.