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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John

My convenience story is about the time I discovered jawbreakers as a kid. I would buy one and carry it with me everywhere for probably two weeks. Licking it and then keeping it in my pocket. Yup, jawbreakers were the most unsanitary candy ...

Ashley

So when i was 13 me and my best friend went to the store to get slushies. We went up to the counter to pay for them and the man asked us for a piece of ID. We were both confused and asked each other “is there alcohol in slushies?” Till this day we still don’t know if he was joking or ...