Everything you need to know about the difference between the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald is encapsulated in their respective ledes about a new supermarket replacing a neighborhood fixture in the Hyde Square section of Jamaica Plain.
From Thursday’s Herald:
A Whole Foods incursion into earthy-crunchy Jamaica Plain is sparking a culture clash between fans of the posh chain and local shoppers loyal to a popular Hispanic market the gourmet grocer is replacing.
But what’s a “popular Hispanic market” in the Herald is something else entirely in the Globe:
For Jamaica Plain’s eclectic mix of hipsters, affluent professionals, and working-class Latinos, there has been no starker symbol of transformation in their neighborhood than the one announced yesterday: The tumble-down Latino grocery Hi-Lo Foods will close its doors and reopen as a sparkling new Whole Foods Market.
The transition from tumble-down to sparkling new is part of what the Globe labels an “inexorable shift” in the neighborhood.
Others might call it something stronger.
I lived in Hyde Square when I first moved to Boston in the mid-’70s, and I shopped at the Hi-Lo all the time, since my earnings in that decade peaked at around $7000 per annum.
Truth is, Hi-Lo was a mess.
But it was our mess.
Now, in the new-not-necessarily-improved Jamaica Plain, that space belongs to them.
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