THE urban downtown pharmacy-convenience-liquor store. This is a great addition to downtown and I'm grateful to have them near my workplace across the street in CityScape. They're not 24 hours, but open long enough hours into the night until downtown has emptied of office and government workers and only a smattering of urban dwellers, downtown visitors, students and homeless remain. \n\nI don't get the comments saying what a large store it is - or that it's \"a dump\". It seems considerably smaller than at least what I think of as the usual standalone CVS or Walgreens, and continues to be kept clean and well-maintained despite an apparently thriving business and throngs of at least weekday customers. The store packs a lot into it's narrow aisles and quickly congested space, and has transformed considerably over the past couple of years, carrying a great deal more convenience and snack foods (\"healthy\" - not so much), and liquor. Lots of liquor. \n\nIt seems to be rare that I go in when there are not one or more folks in the checkout line that give an appearance of homelessness, waiting to check out with bottles from the liquor shelves. I'm not hatin' - It's just kind of sad, and also seems kind of incongruous that a pharmacy, at least as idealized from my bucolic past, an at least theoretical dispensary of health and healing, should become such a prominent purveyor of poisons, both liquid and ethereal (okay, I'm reaching here: \"smokes\"). It is however, a great convenience for whatever purpose to denizens of the downtown.\n\nStaff has always been friendly and courteous as time and backed-up check-out lines allow. The back entrance/exit to the CityScape plaza has been altered to host a number of self-service checkouts (4 or 5?) in addition to the staffed register. \n\nThe store offers MoneyGram services and (I believe) photo printing as well, but the latter may have bitten the dust in the wake of an expanded liquor section. The most unique feature of the store however, may be the Luck Strikes bowling lanes upstairs and above the store. It's kind of amusing to hear the bowling balls hit the floor and roll across the ceiling above you while you shop. And when it's really quiet, you can hear the pins drop. (where are italics when I need them!)
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