OXXO on Playa la Ropa

Rob!!!!???? are you becoming nostalgic in your Autumn years? Rage against the Machine Rob! Oxxo stores are plastic and styrofoam garbage factories. Their parking lots convert into beer soaked tail gate parties and musica banda rave venues. They are a pox on the community and should be banished.

I'm with you. I've watched several of my local friends with tienditas go out of business after an Oxxo opened up in the neighborhood. It's really been tough on a lot of local families having these stores pop up like mushrooms all over the place.

The only good thing Oxxo has done is stand up to the criminals who tried to extort them. Instead of paying derecho de piso they simply closed all their stores until the police gave the bad guys such a hard time they finally left Oxxo alone, though they still do a brisk business in their parking lots and environs because so many people go there.

But most of the folks who live and visit at La Ropa nowadays aren't the same caliber of folks who used to occupy La Ropa, folks who used to walk to the market most mornings to get their foodstuffs for the day. Many of us would sometimes make more than one trip a day to town on foot. Many of the current denizens will be driving their cars and motonetas to Oxxo from the other end of the huerta.