Harry’s Grocery
1. Pack of Camel Lights
2. Slim Jim
3. Scratch Ticket
4. Six Pack of Milwaukee’s Best
If a person walked into Harry’s Grocery with a shopping list, it would probably look something like the above. Harry’s is an old school convenience store: a progenitor of all the Seven-Elevens and Kwik-e-Marts that pimple up our cultural complexion.
Tony, an Asian clerk who spoke to me briefly while selling pack after pack of cigarettes, was the only person I met who welcomed the changes coming to this block. Development, he told me is “always good: good for city, good for county, good for state.”
Tony told me that the store’s owner might try to rent retail space in the new building when it is complete in a year or so. While bars have already been banned from the new building, a store like Harry’s might be welcomed. As the least unique business on the block, Harry’s may have the best chance of surviving here.