Hispanic bodega owners lobbied against the 50,000-square-foot store, saying it would destroy their business.

Building membership was easy because bodega owners shopped in the same places.

The crime was the cold-blooded murder of a bodega owner and his young employee in December 1997.

The problem for the 39-year-old bodega owner is deciding what to stock his shelves with.

Local bodega owners have led opposition to the plan.

Opposition to the projected store has come largely from local bodega owners, who fear that it will put them out of business.

He does odd jobs here and there, mostly for bodega owners, he said.

Two Brooklyn men were accused of shooting a bodega owner in a failed robbery.

Opponents of the store, who fear that it would hurt local bodega owners, said they could block the project.

When the bodega owner failed to produce the money, one of the robbers hit him in the head with a pistol, the police said.