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Here in Peru, do you need to use the internet, wash your clothes, and buy some Doritos? There's a shop for that. Even some homes are that shop.
Many people seem to make their living by using the first floor of their house as a make-shift convenience store. Typical wares include soda, water, snacks, bread, and prepaid phone cards. And these wares are usually sprawled all over every inch of wall and counter space available. The owners are clearly not worried about presentation.
And these shops are everywhere. I can walk in any direction from my host family's house and run into one of these shops in under a minute. It's actually very convenient. Maybe too convenient--I can (and do) buy a Coke at any hour of the day. Because that's the other thing: they're open just as long as the owner wants to hang out there. And when you work out of your entry room of your own house, you can hang out there all hours of the day.
I tried to comment on this earlier and it wasn't having it but... haha these are here everywhere as well and are soo convinient! The first time I realized these were also homes I was visiting a family and assumed we were going to talk to the mom at her place of work, then when she invited us in to talk w/the whole family I was like whoa what most of these have homes behind that door?! haha. (maybe you already got this comment i don't know really understand what it's asking me to do when it acts like it isn't working ha)
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