The software bugs, baffling interfaces and limited selections of the average online shop make even the corner grocery look like a miracle of organisation and choice.

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Twenty-five years later he is still shrouded in dreams and terror, and his two friends, Sean (Kevin Bacon), a homicide detective, and Jimmy (Sean Penn), an ex-con who runs a corner grocery, still feel the shame of not helping him.

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He lived on paved, lighted city streets, and a bicycle ride away were the Asian drugstore and the Armenian grocery store and the corner where black Cubans drank coffee and talked Dodgers baseball.

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New Yorkers most often purchase sugary beverages in the grocery store, at a corner bodega, or a chain convenience store.

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Under normal circumstances, I usually meet with a dozen or so constituents for a few minutes each at my Congress on Your Corner events, held at a local grocery store or coffee shop.

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The NAACP and the Hispanic Federation say their concern is that minority-owned delis and corner stores will end up at a disadvantage compared with grocery chains.

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The NAACP and the Hispanic Federation, an organization of 100 Northeastern groups, say their concern is that minority-owned delis and corner stores will end up at a disadvantage compared with grocery chains.

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