Gee, it must be nice to live in a place where there are mom and pop stores still. I have a lot of llanteras around me that are family owned. And there are a couple of carnicerias. Guess it's old tires and tripe for everyone. Or I could go to Tempe or Scottsdale, some family tourist traps are still around. Seriously, where are these family owned groceries and toy stores?
The high end/yuppie groceries are Whole Foods and AJ's Fine Foods, the latter being part of what's left of two chains of locally owned groceries. AJ Bayless was bought out by Basha's many years ago. Basha's kept the AJ name for a few stores. Regular Basha's started going downhill when they adopted loyalty cards. They survived by turning most of the stores into Food City, geared to low income and Hispanic buyers, no loyalty cards and none at AJ's either. The actual mom and pop stores are small Hispanic ones.
Gee, it must be nice to live in a place where there are mom and pop stores still. I have a lot of llanteras around me that are family owned. And there are a couple of carnicerias. Guess it's old tires and tripe for everyone. Or I could go to Tempe or Scottsdale, some family tourist traps are still around. Seriously, where are these family owned groceries and toy stores?
The high end/yuppie groceries are Whole Foods and AJ's Fine Foods, the latter being part of what's left of two chains of locally owned groceries. AJ Bayless was bought out by Basha's many years ago. Basha's kept the AJ name for a few stores. Regular Basha's started going downhill when they adopted loyalty cards. They survived by turning most of the stores into Food City, geared to low income and Hispanic buyers, no loyalty cards and none at AJ's either. The actual mom and pop stores are small Hispanic ones.