Convenience Stores
On the Run
About On the Run
A quick stop shop sells time as much as goods, and On the Run does that from 105 Adams Road in Kelowna. This is a spread out city where people drive between districts as a matter of course, so places that hand over coffee, cold drinks and snacks on the way to somewhere else carry a steady load through the day. Calls go to 250-491-1882, and the location page sits on ontherunstores.com.
Convenience shops like this tend to keep a wider set of small services than the floor space suggests: hot and cold drinks, packaged food, ice, basic toiletries, lottery and phone credit, and often a cash machine. Not every site carries every one of those, which is the main reason to phone ahead when you need something specific rather than a general stop. Stock and layout vary from one location to the next, so a call before a special trip beats a guess.
Summer here means long drives: the lake road south to the Mission beaches, Highway 97 north toward Vernon, the eastern climb toward the hills, and the bridge west across the water. Picking up drinks and snacks before setting out beats stopping somewhere rural at the wrong hour. Winter on the valley floor is short and more grey than snowy, but the passes and the hillside subdivisions above the city are a different story, so a scraper and extra washer fluid are worth grabbing early in the season.
Visiting On the Run
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In the Downtown neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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