Duke Street Food Block

[robdrimmie]

There's still a convenience store pretty much every block on King downtown. From Water street headed east (south?) there's one in the block that used to rock beside La Cucina, Shoppers, not one on City hall block, one beside the panini place that used to be called La Cucina but is now closed, a dollar store between Philly cheesesteak and Ace shawarma, the walper convenience store, one beside where Niko Niko sushi used to be, dollarama, nothing in the market square/record block but one just kitty corner to it then a small African foods store that serves a similar purpose then new city market and across from the market there's a pharmacy and a convenience store.

Downtown is well served by convenience stores and others that fill the same need.

I'm curious if convenience stores sell any meaningful volume of things that aren't lottery tickets, tobacco, chips and soft drinks. I'm curious how much grocery stores selling soft drinks as loss leaders is to blame on the death of neighbourhood convenience stores, and how much reduced tobacco consumption is to blame.