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[suzu]

Deli or bodega.

But I call the one on my block a corner store, because it's actually on the corner.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

A bodega is a pub. You go to drink alcohol.

The type of store talked about in OP is of course a kiosk.

Doesn't matter what it technically is, people adapt a word and use it as they want. Bodega was the corner store for my parents (Bronx). Amongst me and my friends, it was the Candy store though.

 

[GeordieMark]

The paper shop or just 'the shop'.

 

[richardhawk]

Liquor store.

Los Angeles.

 

[Mushroomer25]

.... Why the hell wouldn't you call it a 'convenience store'?

Oregon here. Usually refer to them as convenience stores, or occasionally corner stores. Most have names though, so we'd typically refer to each one by name.

 

[Matty77]

Depends on how old you are. Packies never used to be open on Sundays for a while in a healthy portion of areas. Made things complicated, but it still was roughly the same sort of shop.

I hear Cumby's. Never heard bodega until living in Brooklyn.

Yeah, I am old enough to remember high tailing it to Connecticut to get beer on Sunday's and veritable holidays. Now you can always find something except the major holidays but I don't even drink anymore.

 

[Eyemus Lutt]

I think you guys just attempt to be weird on purpose. I know that you have an odd name for Burger King down there too. Didn't they try and revert the name and everyone revolted, so they kept the original?

That was more because there was already a small burger joint called Burger King before the american company came over, so they rebranded as Hungry Jacks but all the burgers are the same and have the same names as the US. Then I think they bought the rights to Burger King but by that time everyone knew it as Hungry Jack's.
Also a lot of McDonald's are rebranded as Macca's now because that's just what everyone refers to them as.

 

[MemoryHumanity]

Offy. As in off license.

 

[Archer]

Grocery store

 

[Sanjuro]

That was more because there was already a small burger joint called Burger King before the american company came over, so they rebranded as Hungry Jacks but all the burgers are the same and have the same names as the US. Then I think they bought the rights to Burger King but by that time everyone knew it as Hungry Jack's.
Also a lot of McDonald's are rebranded as Macca's now because that's just what everyone refers to them as.

That's what it was. Maccas! Got confused.

 

[entremet]

Wtf milk bars lmao

Lol

 

[LosDaddie]

I live in the suburbs of Orlando.

There's no corner store that's like "my" local corner store that I frequent. In fact, the only time I go to one is fill up my gas tank 1x a week.

 

[J@hranimo]

QuikTrip (lol)

Closest thing to corner stores in Atlanta.

 

[Hugstable]

I just call it the store

 

[BibiMaghoo]

'The shop'

 

[Brinbe]

Convenience store

Bodegas are very particular looking places. That's a unique place unto itself. Go almost anywhere in NY and you'll see what ppl are saying. It's not exactly like the usual corner store.

 

[Walter White Walker]

Washington here - I call them the convenience store. Sometimes I just call them the store but then my kids will say, "Which store are we going to?" and then I have to clarify, "The convenience store".

 

[RoslindaleOne]

A store. If it sells just booze, packie.

 

[highrider]

Maryland/DC area person.

The store. That's what everyone around here calls it. You might mention 7-11 which is very common here for slurpees and such.

 

[Will M]

The convini:

 

[Chris R]

The gas station, because they all have attached gas stations.

I might also call it the Holiday when I'm going to the Holiday gas station to grab a drink or something.

 

[Lashley]

corner shop

 

[HazySaiyan]

'Newsagents', 'Off-License' or just 'The Shop'

 

[zeioIIDX]

Growing up in south side Chicago, we always called it the corner store.

 

[Mr Nash]

Don't see as many as I used to in my neck of the woods. The places always charge an arm and a leg for everything, so people stopped going, and they've been gradually going out of business.

 

[cwmartin]

package store aka "packie"

 

[Dai101]

Tienda o la tiendita.

If you're familiar with the owner then it becomes "la tienda/la tiendita de ______________"

With the march of time this becomes in the end just "_____________" and drop "la tienda" completely.

 

[3N16MA]

Corner store or sometimes convenience store.