Do you have a trusted 'neighborhood' store?

Yes, I do have one although not in my neighborhood but it's not a trip to the supermarket either and I can get canned stuff, cold drinks, bananas, lottery tickets and fresh milk so it's a keeper. And, I like spending a few minutes talking with the owner who knows me well now. I'm glad I have this place. :giggle:
 
My favorite is the Ace Hardware just around the corner. It is owned by a local family. They hire older men and teenage boys for the heavy lifting. The older men are right there to help you find what you need. They can also answer any questions you might have.

They don't say, Aisle 5, they walk you right to the items you are looking for.
They also have a repair shop at the back of the store. If you need to have your mower or any other lawn equipment repaired they do it on site. It is really convenient to me as I can just push the mower around there to have it done. I bought my last mower there, they put it together for me and I just pushed it home.
 
Yes, I've some within walking distance. Downtown is plentiful and village next over plus on hour bus route, the next city offers different shops but mostly our trips up there are for occasional charities for clothing.

Daughter and I are natural bankers, meaning from round September, we buy extras in case of extreme weather, transport strikes and more which occurs unfortunately...
 
We have a few of them within an 8-minute drive. One is quite essential to a land-based, hands-on lifestyle. It's a family-owned hardware store that stocks a very broad range of useful products. We have a sociable relationship with the family that owns it, partly because we knew them from a plant-nursery business they owned for many years before.

Besides the incredible stock they carry, what makes this hardware store outstanding is that the family was originally farm-based. So they know all the skills & processes that are part of living here — carpentry, plumbing, staining & painting, electrical wiring, housekeeping, raising & preserving food, and lots more.

They've hired good staff, and the family members can offer reliable advice on selecting the product that would best suit a need. To avoid praise becoming annoying, I'll only add their service has included kindness beyond any good-business obligations.
 
I have a Budgens, which is a small corner store, less than 5 minutes walk from my front door.

What do I use it for? Well, milk. My partner uses it for cigarettes. I think I've bought bread there too.
 
Reminds me of a weird story.

We have a small chain of grocery stores (3 locations?) out within small satellite towns: "Carl's Market."

One was out near my job. One time (after my divorce) I had the boys and I loaded them up and took them along to the Carl's near work. Got a cart, got groceries, got in the checkout line. When I got to the cashier she asks "Do you have a Carl's Card?"

I pull it out and hand it over. Check out, no incident.

We leave the store and the boys crack up, nearly rolling on the ground. "Carl's Card? Do you have your Carl's Card?"

I'm like WTF? But by then they have me laughing.

For some reason it hit them all the same way. it somehow reminded all three of then of "Weekend At Bernie's" and so they wanted me to open the trunk so they could look inside first.
 
We live in a very rural area, but have a good grocery store, Dollar General, excellent hardware store, and a good auto parts store in the small town 4 miles away. We can find 90% of what we need there, and don't have to waste much time and gas driving further away.
 
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