# Favorite convenience stores you like to hang around? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [August 14, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707 "2024-08-14T15:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/21 "2024-08-14T20:23:36Z")
and Sheetz cooks your sandwiches to order ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/22 "2024-08-14T20:24:58Z")
Does Quik-Stop count? Excellent selection of goods, fresh cooked food, good coffee ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/23 "2024-08-14T21:05:51Z")
[For me, it’s bait shops.](http://miamibeach411.com/photos/tour/roadside-attractions-02.jpg) Something about the familiar smell. Go in and grab a sandwich from the deli, a cold drink and a moon pie. The go out front and side in the shade and indulge. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/24 "2024-08-14T21:16:11Z")
[Kwik Trip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwik_Trip). I go in there every morning after work. They’re giving out free samples at just that time don’t you know 😉 . Not only do they have everything under the sun, including beer & liquor, their prices are well below those of the ordinary Stop-n-Rob gas stations. They have a huge variety of coffee and make pizzas inhouse. They are extraordinarily popular. You would not believe how packed with people they always are, but especially in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/25 "2024-08-14T21:19:21Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > [Kwik Trip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwik_Trip). This. Here in Wisconsin, the phrase “Hon, I’m goin’ to the Kwik Trip, kin I getcha anyting?” has replaced “I love you” in many relationships. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/26 "2024-08-15T02:48:27Z")
I’ve always loved convenience stores, because they were part of my independence. We were ‘free range kids’, and every summer morning we’d take off on our bikes (homemade Sting-Rays). And if we biked to a “Stop ‘N’ Rob”, then we didn’t even have to go home for lunch. These days (half a century later) I’m still spending days out on my bike, and my favorite stop is one of a dozen local _Kwik Trips._ Especially when they have their old-fashion donuts for 39¢! And, as it happens, my free-range kid and his fellow skateboarders hit convenience stores for lunch, and those Arizona Iced Teas… [22 ounces for a buck!](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media-library-service-media/92e6f0fe-35d4-4139-927e-973325fd7a53. __CR0,0,970,600_PT0_SX970_V1___.png) When they were skating in Tokyo, I asked about the best food they’d found. The answer was immediate: “Sushi and bento lunches at 7-11s!” > [@gnoitall](#): > > [Combini: Japanese Convenience Stores and Life in Modern Japan - Unseen Japan](https://unseen-japan.com/combini-in-japan-daily-life/) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/27 "2024-08-15T03:13:22Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > There’s a store attached to a Chevron station that I occasionally stop at on my way to work to get a sandwich – they have homemade sandwiches on big slices of actual sandwich bread, and they don’t skip on the meat or the pickles. And they’re only $7. Oddly there is a place nearby that does the same. It is also a bait shop. But to answer the OP- there are _no_ such stores I would want to hang around in. Maybe Jay and Silent Bob would. 🤪 > [@Lancia](#): > > I would never “hang out” in a convenience store. I stop there out of necessity only. In and out and GTFO and go on with my day. Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Strenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Strenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strenger)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/28 "2024-08-15T04:05:42Z")
“Hang around”? Exactly none. Universally they are gathering grounds, I find, for derelicts who very probably diminish any amount of satisfaction the employees may gain from their jobs. However, I do enjoy the services of several local 7-11s many days a week. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/29 "2024-08-15T10:58:41Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > Nowadays I prefer Circle K for their Polar Pop fountain drinks [Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.](https://youtu.be/XgniTzdiw_0) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/30 "2024-08-15T18:09:03Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I don’t buy milk at a Dollar store, first off. We’ve had issues with milk from DashMart, DoorDash’s brick & mortar convenience store. We had delivery from them a couple of times and stopped when each gallon tasted “off” even though they supposedly had not expired. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/31 "2024-08-15T19:16:15Z")
In high school there was a store called Errter’s Market right next to the student parking lot. It was technically off-campus so we would go hang out there at lunch to smoke cigarettes. Oh, and they’d sell us cigarettes even though we were clearly underage. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/32 "2024-08-15T20:16:52Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I _would_ like to stop a Buc-ees someday, but I’m far left coast so unless they have one in Dallas by next spring, that probably won’t happen. [buc ee's in dallas - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=d05fce14889cf0fa&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C5GCCM_enUS1109US1114&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:4&tbm=lcl&sxsrf=ADLYWIIunKImKutpQ-_TYrY37tG49guMAA:1723752907888&q=buc+ee%27s+in+dallas&rflfq=1&num=10&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4i4X-5_eHAxUNAjQIHUr8HR8QjGp6BAgjEAE&biw=1512&bih=799&dpr=1#rlfi=hd:;si:;mv:%5B%5B34.37683150476744,-93.62242845%5D,%5B31.35959354470522,-99.62096360625002%5D)] There are several around Dallas currently. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/33 "2024-08-15T21:04:22Z")
When I was young and foolish and needed money, I spent a couple of months working a second job, part-time, 3 nights a week at a 7-11 (or maybe it was the other brand of convenience store they had in Portland at the time, the name of which escapes me). Ugh. A more pestilent hive of pointless loitering and petty theft and boredom I have not experienced. Such places are now only a last resort for me if I need to buy something quickly. I’d rather get lost in a Target or something. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/34 "2024-08-15T21:13:57Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > We’ve had issues with milk from DashMart, DoorDash’s brick & mortar convenience store. We had delivery from them a couple of times and stopped when each gallon tasted “off” even though they supposedly had not expired. That sucks. ☹ Here, we have a local chain of convenience stores called Dari-Mart. Obviously started by a dairy. I always stop there to get milk from them, because it’s so fresh and local. The expiry date is always about 2 weeks out, and the milk lasts 2 weeks past that. I don’t hang around convenience stores otherwise. Although I may linger a moment or two to gaze longingly at the bags of Cheetos. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/35 "2024-08-15T21:22:22Z")
I think it’s hilarious that there are places named Pump n Munch and Kum & Go. I prefer to do my pumping after I do my munching, however. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6HMYmZs1zK1U-wte33e_GQXpqMrtDeZ9ZWQ&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6HMYmZs1zK1U-wte33e_GQXpqMrtDeZ9ZWQ&s) [![](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/gcdn/presto/2023/02/16/PDEM/0115b487-32b1-47cc-9a79-36754c04a088-Kum__Go.jpg) ](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/gcdn/presto/2023/02/16/PDEM/0115b487-32b1-47cc-9a79-36754c04a088-Kum__Go.jpg) [![](https://www.munchnpump.com/cmsAdmin/uploads/2/dtown_003.jpg) ](https://www.munchnpump.com/cmsAdmin/uploads/2/dtown_003.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/36 "2024-08-15T21:34:38Z")
There is a convenience store on the North Carolina coast called Biscuits n’ Porn. > **[Convenience Store | Biscuits N Porn | Nags Head](https://www.biscuitsnporn.net/)** > > Come Get Some Great Homemade Food! And Don’t Forget to Grab Your Biscuits And Porn Swag!!!! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/37 "2024-08-15T21:49:14Z")
Hey, that’s walking distance from Kitty Hawk Kites! You can fill up on carbs ‘n’ titillation, then go hang glide on the same sand dunes that Orville and Wilbur did. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/38 "2024-08-16T00:32:40Z")
Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck’s) ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/39 "2024-08-16T01:35:57Z")
The only time I ever “hung around” at a convenience store was when I was 17 and had dropped acid at a Who concert. I was too afraid to go home and potentially get caught, so I stood in a 7-Eleven all night playing Ms. Pac Man. That was all the convenience store hanging out I ever needed to do. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707/40 "2024-08-16T01:53:50Z")
> [@Disinfectus](#): > > I stood in a 7-Eleven all night playing Ms. Pac Man How much did you spend in quarters? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-convenience-stores-you-like-to-hang-around/1005707.md?page=3)