Convenience Stores
Happy Days Food Store
About Happy Days Food Store
Milk you forgot, ice for the cooler, a cold drink on the way to the water: corner stores earn their place by being close and by being open when the bigger rooms are not. Happy Days Food Store keeps its counter at 2409 39 St on the downtown side of Vernon.
Neighbourhood food shops tend to shape themselves around whoever lives within a few blocks. Beyond the staples, snacks, drinks, dairy, bread, frozen goods and household basics, many carry a lottery terminal, ice, propane exchange or a small selection of prepared food, and some lean into groceries from one part of the world in particular. Because these shops are small, stock moves and turns over, so if you are counting on one specific thing it is worth a phone call rather than a drive. Hours in this trade usually run longer than in retail generally, though they tighten around statutory holidays, which is the day people most often get caught out.
Vernon spreads further than first appearances suggest, from Okanagan Landing out by the water to Swan Lake at the north end and the Commonage rolling away to the south, and that distance is exactly what makes a nearby shop useful. Summer changes the traffic, since the lakes fill the city with people who need one forgotten item before the beach, and winter changes it again when nobody wants a long errand in the cold. Either way the trip stays short.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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