- This is another store inside the Arthur Avenue Retail Market. It is called Peter’s Meat Market and has been around for generations. To add, it is one of the first stores that a customer can see when they walk in, proudly showing off their Italian and American flags. The owner of the store is Italian, while the employees are almost all of Mexican backgrounds. This signifies the growing diversity in the neighborhood, which can bring about some conflict. The Mexican employees seem to have integrated in the neighborhood(along with the other nationalities) because of how well they understand the demands of the customers. One visit to the store and you would think they’ve lived there for most of their lives, when in reality it has been around 10-15 years that they’ve moved in. This would bring an interesting conversation as to whether or not the older Italians would accept other nationalities so integrated in the community.
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