Express Liquor

Express Liquor has no signage on the outside, looks mostly boarded up.
goods available:
–unpriced microbrews, mainstream beers
–overpriced wines
–hard liquor behind counter
–ice cream, chips, snacks, canned goods
buys: lotto tics
–universally priced the same everywhere
notes:
–friendly service
–parking available in front.

Express liquors is an adventure in adult beverages and vintage canned beans. There is no façade (get it?) about this being anything more than it is, a liquor store joint. When local and lazy, you can find all kinds of shit, like a kind of treasure hunt. For example you can get a can of pop-​it-​yourself pop corn for a buck twenty five here, for those midnight movies. Also sometimes they stock up on Ben and Jerry’s, for about 3.50, and have liquor in all sizes. The people working here are super nice. It’s kind of expensive to buy certain booze here, but you can usually get the cheap shit at cheap shit prices.

For starters, I’m a little pissed off the gf was first to review Express. Second, this place is no Lee’s Market (check my reviews).
This being an Oakland Liquor store, there’s plenty of tin foil. And brillo pads. They don’t have bread, but they have 30 rolls of tin foil. Great. Just what I wanted. A tin foil and brillo pad sandwich. AJ and Sultan hold down the fort most of the time, but Hassan (Pops) can be found around usually to.

This is my local liquor store/​corner market… they’ve got bacon & eggs (it’s decent, it’s bacon, what do you want?) for my man’s breakfasts, Arizona Sweet Tea (which kicks ass in a hypoglycemic way), reasonable to cheaply priced cigs (marbs & camels & shit for 4, 4.50… American Spirits & the like for 5, with tax)… Pint of Jim Beam for 8.08, Seagrams for pennies more, standard variety of mixers.
The staff here’s awesome. Being new to the neighborhood and expecting regular patronage, I took the liberty of introducing myself to the almost-​always-​there guy. I went in somewhat late the other night, and some young East Oakland thug kid came in & started hassling me… cause I’m a pretty thing… and my new buddy chased him off. Yay for nice liquor store clerks. And, as a plus, he doesn’t look at my funny when I go in for my 3^rd purchase of the day.
Update: Sure, they don’t have a lot of shit. If you’re cooking and find yourself lacking, well… anything, this is Not the place. I generally like my corner store to carry at least 1. sour cream and 2. butter (strangely, the two things I tend to need to «run out for» the most); no such luck here.
They were out of Jim Beam for a good while (which, quite honestly, is probably the fault of this household). But, they made up for it this week by stocking Jim Beam Black (aged 8 years!). It’s like ordering a steak at a McDonalds. And the last couple weeks I’ve noticed Bombay Original Dry Gin (no, not sapphire), which you don’t see too often.