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Dessale

"We tried, as much as possible, to put more flags. The store is trying to accommodate everybody, and we want to make everybody come in here and we want to make everybody feel at home. That's our motto. " -Dessale Owner Habesha convenience ...

Barbara

From '75 to '84, we rented a place down the street. And even after we moved we still came back here often. In fact, my ex-husband painted a picture of this store, and gave it to Dominic. So that shows you how much this store has meant to ...

Zahra

"Mariko comes from a single parent family as well, and she comes from the Japanese community, and Vietnamese community, and she has a really really solid work ethic, and I think that that is something that we both carry from our respective cultural backgrounds. Even though she's not an immigrant, I'm an immigrant, and we're ...

Adam Vaughan

"The convenience stores actually live up to their name. They give you that convenience without having to get to in the car and drive somewhere and park and go through traffic. They sort of knit the neighbourhood together. "If you look at successful streets, streets without convenience stores tend to struggle a bit. They ...

Debbie

"I used to run the parent council at the school over there, and I just kind of knew a lot of people, so when I opened it, I kind of took those people into consideration as to what was going to happen in the store, and as people came in and made different requests for different things, it kind of changed the store. You ...

Amber-Leah Margaret Timmons

I am the author of First Date Questions for Women. It took me four months to write my book and two years to get to know the friendly owner at the "My Convenience Store" on Victoria Street North in Kitchener. Since getting to know them I have told them about my newest book and they kindly offered to sell it in their store for ...

Brett

I used to regularly visit the shop on the corner of Harbord & Bathurst, when I lived near there. Really nice owner there, and we would always joke around. One time, while he was cashing me out, I laughed at his Lays chips display - I told him that I thought it was funny how the chips, which said 'Big Bag of Lays!' were ...