Convenience Stores
People's Store
About People's Store
Corner stores survive on the errands nobody plans. Milk at nine in the evening, a lottery ticket, a forgotten ingredient before dinner, a cold drink on a hot afternoon halfway home on foot. People's Store fills that role at 3700 27 St in downtown Vernon, on one of the numbered streets carrying traffic through the heart of the city.
The stock in a small store is a judgement call rather than a formula, and it usually reflects the blocks immediately around it. A store among houses leans toward staples and household basics, one near offices leans toward lunch and coffee, and anywhere within reach of a lake or a park keeps ice, drinks and snacks near the front all summer. Prices on any single item run higher than at a supermarket, which is the trade for being close by and being open when the larger stores are not. Anyone counting on one particular thing is better off ringing first than driving over.
Downtown Vernon is walkable in a way that suits this kind of business. The core is flat, the numbered grid is easy to read, and East Hill rises directly above it, so a fair number of customers arrive on foot rather than by car. Summer brings the through traffic heading out to Okanagan Landing and the beaches, and winter brings the short dark afternoons when a store on the way home is worth more than a cheaper one across town. Curbside parking is metered or time limited in places, so for a quick stop it pays to read the sign before you walk in.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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