Hi-Lo

For 47 years, the Hi-Lo grocery store provided J.P. residents with staple items and a vast stock of Latin American products.

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

And while activists complain that the store "is unaffordable to many families in Jamaica Plain," an informal survey by Boston Globe blogger Rob Anderson found that "Comparable pasta, cereal, and soap products were all cheaper at Whole Foods than at Hi-Lo, and the store much vilified as 'whole paycheck' had the cheapest milk of any store in the city."

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

Did Hi-Lo provide health care to its 40 employees?

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

"I bought my Spanish food at Hi-Lo," said Aida Lopez's daughter Rosa, "but just the Cuban stuff and milk."

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

Anti-Whole Foods activist Ms. Pardew admits she doesn't know, adding that "the stories we hear from Hi-Lo employees is that they weren't great employers."

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

Keep in mind that in some variants — like Hi-Lo — low ranking hands can also win or tie.

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But when Knapp Food group, the Massachusetts-based owners of Hi-Lo, decided that they had had enough of the supermarket business, they pulled out of Jamaica Plain, shuttered a local landmark, and negotiated a 20-year lease with Austin, Texas-based grocery giant Whole Foods.

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

What it isn't about, she says, is Hi-Lo workers now being out of jobs.

A Whole Foods Fight in Boston Michael C. Moynihan 2011

I made my way to Hi-Lo, the aforementioned Jamaican restaurant on Cowley Road, where I was charged £2 for a can of fizzy pop and was sworn at repeatedly by the owner, in a nice way, somehow.

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According to @chinmj, during his university years David Cameron was a regular at Hi-Lo, a Jamaican cafe on Cowley Street, where the owner "likes a smoke".

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