Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store

Americans have become deeply enamored with Asian flavors: From April 2023 to April 2024, sales of items in the “Asian/ethnic aisle” in U.S. grocery stores grew nearly four times more than overall sales, according to the data analytics company Circana.

How Two Chicago Brothers Built the Largest Indian Grocery Chain in North America

The original Patel Brothers, open since 1974, still stands in the Little India area of the West Rogers Park neighborhood.