Convenience Plus

This place used to be a dump and it has only gotten worse! Keno is the only reason you should step in here. God save you if you get food or drink from convenience plus! Most customers are locals, customer service is not good. many drunk and intoxicated people roam around. Been here hundreds of times spend thousands of dollars in lottery but nothing top being denied some matches because I did’nt buy any cigarettes today.

Every once in a while I decide to domesticate. «Oh!» I think to myself, «the boy I’m seeing is studying for an important exam — I’ll ease his stress by surprising him with a baked ziti.»
:Flash forward to me crying on the floor of my kitchen because, after three hours of carefully crafting a baked ziti from scratch I realize I have no aluminum foil, saran wrap or clean gortex clothing to keep it in the pan/​protect it from the elements* while I ride the bus and T and if I don’t leave now, he’ll beat me back to his apartment and my ENTIRE plan will be destroyed:
Quick thinking and utter desperation found me carrying my pan toward Central Square and the one place I vowed I’d never enter. Why? Convenience Plus is about half of the contents of one of those tollbooth-​sized gas station island Convenience stores PLUS a ton of empty space and, as everyone else said, Keno. One star.
As I frantically circled the store, came up with a dusty box of aluminum foil, and lunged toward the counter, I believe I met a level of crazy equitable to that of a regular. Eying aforementioned regulars on the benches outside, «I CAN USE THIS NOW ON YOUR COUNTER?»
«Sure.»
Two stars.
*The «elements» might include, but are not limited to, germs conveyed by way of saliva or other bodily fluids, unpleasant aromas and the general filth of humanity rained down on public transit on the daily.

Each of the Convenience Stores in Central Square have their own quirks: the 7−11s give you a sense of what to expect in a convenience store; that one next to the bus stop has a Subway built into it; but it’s Convenience Plus that tops them all with its Keno.
It’s not just that the Keno is here, it’s that the Keno seems to be this place’s primary purpose to exist. Selection is not the greatest (Though they do have those 24 oz Diet Pepsis that I appreciate so), but they bring the people both in and outside the store with the Keno. At any day or night, you’ll find people outside chasing the American Dream by watching a blue screen flash numbers on it. I don’t know whether or not they actually do get that dream, but I do know that the screen and its numbers are there, and there are a decent amount of people either there or watching in the store, waiting to see if their numbers hit and they win.
Overall, Convenience Plus has some things, but if you need food/​drinks, unless you’re looking for something like a 24 oz Diet Pepsi, you should go across the street.

More like Convenience Minus.
Yeah, this place is most interesting for its people watching potential. Other than that, the aisles are rather wide and spacey, there are shady characters checking their lottery (losses) in the back, and the staff is not particularly friendly. For once in my life I might be more inclined to go to a chain store like a 7 – 11 across the street, and that’s saying something about this place.

«The ‘Plus’ is KENO!»
This is the convenience store that nobody goes to. It doesn’t have much in the way of convenience, and what it does have is generally frightening.
They have a small basket of really cheap candy on the counter, so I checked it out. Yeah. At least eating expired candy isn’t actually bad for you, even if it’s a little weird to be eating a confectionery treat as old as your little brother or niece. CHOMP!
This is the convenience store that conspiracy theory lady usually chooses to mumble in front of, but the main attraction is KENO!!! They actually have a TV screen they point out onto the sidewalk so people can smoke while they wait for their big winnings. There is usually a crowd in the back around the screen too. Sort of interesting.
Whatever, their Diet Coke tastes the same and I don’t have to cross the street to 7 – 11. :)

So I work across the street at Hot Off The Press, sadly I was sent to this creepy hole in the wall to get some whip cream… (7-​eleven, which is nice and clean was out of it)…
first off… um… hello? broom? sweep much? I think not.
secondly… whats with the creepy guys that just stand around in the back and stare into space… they all lean up against the mini isles and just chill… and stare… and randomly comment on people who walk in… like myself… and my curvy nature…
and the third and final straw… i got my whip cream… went back to HOTP… opened the fridge to put it in… looked at the bottle and realized it said «EXP: 03÷24÷05»
wtf? are you kidding?! so I promptly returned it… they apologized and offered to replace it… but after waiting 10 minutes for them to look for some that wasnt expired I gave up and walked the extra 3 blocks to harvest and spent 3 times as much.
but seriously… it expired in 2005… and you couldnt find any others that werent expired… one of the workers actually came out of the back room and said… ‘this one only expired last week!!‘
thanks… im all set with that place… if there was an option to put 0 stars thats what they would have got.

my name for this place is «the most depressing convenience store in the world». when i was taking a class at the YWCA around the corner, i stopped in here once to pick up something to snack on. i should’ve taken the hint from the dingy outside that inside wouldn’t be much better. there’s a lot of space inside but barely any merchandise, and they have weird stuff (i.e. about 30 oversized XXXL white undershirts for $ 5 each?) but not much practical convenience stuff. everything is covered with a fine layer of dust and dirt and there are always, always seedy types hanging around outside. i walked past it recently and now they’re selling long strands of fake ivy??? i don’t get this place at all.