V & M Discount

I love this place. How many convenience stores have an actual personality? This place is not so much a store as an experience. And though it can get frustrating on a visit-​by-​visit basis, whenever I think about V&M, I smile.
My band-​mate and I stop here on our way to practice every week (we pay the rehearsal space in beer and cigarettes.) I put him on crackhead patrol to make sure no one grabs equipment from the back of the truck and I go inside to haggle with the clerks about the price of beer (make sure to take a good look at the prices on the cooler, cause the advertised prices never seem to match up with their pricing book.)
It’s dirt-​cheap (cigarettes for around four bucks a pack and frequent buy-​1-​get-​1 specials) and has a good selection of low– to mid-​level beer. If you don’t mind brushing off bums asking for a change to get a better price, there’s no place better to find your vice.

The funniest thing about V&M is the photos they take of shoplifters after they are caught! Hilarious! But honestly, there is no reason to EVER stop in here.

This place cracks me up, too. You can get 44 oz. drinks for like, 50 cents, and it’s the only place I can think of that requires haggling to buy beer at the posted price. It almost reminds me of the store in Clerks, but way, way, way seedier.
There’s a huge jar of pickled eggs on the counter in the «impulse buy» area, and there are iron bars on all the windows. There’s usually a cop car in the parking lot, and there’s a little back shed where they sell liquor; that way the main store can stay open later and sell beer & smokes.
This place probably has the biggest selection of smokes outside of a smoke shop, and many of the staff look like they might be too young to legally buy cigarettes. Some look so old that I don’t know how emphysema or cirrhosis hasn’t killed them yet. You can’t get gas here, but you can get a dozen different kinds of beef jerky. And did I mention everything is UNBELIEVABLY CHEAP?
As long as you can handle the vagrants and panhandlers in the parking lot, things are good. Just don’t ever apply for a job here… I have a friend who did that once, and ended up quitting because he almost got knifed by a drunk bum while stocking the beer cooler.