Plaid Pantry Markets

This Plaid Pantry near the Burnside Bridge is a more than competent convenience store. There is only a little bit of parking, but this is right next to a streetcar station. It has a size that is nice and medium, making for all kinds of food being offered here.
I went to this Plaid Pantry while commuting on public transportation. For only about $ 1.29, I got some apple juice. The line was long and still they only had one cashier. This is in the middle of an oftentimes hilly pedestrian area, and the price for the juice was slightly below average, so props to Plaid Pantry.
This is a worthwhile Plaid Pantry if you need something.

Yep, it’s a Kwik-​E-​Mart. Nothing exceptional here at all, but they do carry the standard variety of goods that you’d expect to find at any convenience store.
It just so happened that when I was in the neighborhood it was convenient for me to stop in for about two minutes, complete a transaction, and depart. Good ‘enuf.

Eh. There’s a reason they call these convenience stores, right? There’s nothing fancy here but if you need deodorant, Cheez-​its, Gatorade and oil for your car, you’re set. The Plaid Pantry has a bit of everything and while there’s little to no help from the folks who work here, the place is rather easy to maneuver on your own. I came looking for some medicine for my boyfriend and this was the closest store to our hotel. They had exactly what I was looking for, phew. I waited in line as the two gals at the register ignored me and talked to each other. Then when they were finished with their convo I paid and left. Nothing special but at least they had what I needed!

We stopped on a beer run. There was ample parking and the clerk was pleasant. Store was clean but the exterior felt a little sketchy so it was a speedy stop. Bought the beer and continued on our way.

If the #72 TriMet bus were a convenience store, this’d be it.
Sticky floors. Trends come and go, but the timeless classics, well, what to say? In a market-​driven economy, money talks and suckers walk. Plaid pantry has settled upon a solid little formula of smokes, lottery, quickie beverages of the hot, cold, and bottled variety, and junk food of all stripes. Suckers just keep on walking through these scuz-​ball doors, walkin’ across them nasty sticky scuz-​ball floors, to donate liberally once more, to the local, municipal sin tax coffers.
Some Plaids have gas pumps. This one doesn’t. The owner/​mgt. conglomerate apparently doesn’t want to take any of the intended focus of the store, away from its perpetually grimy, oh so sticky floors. B/​c of the genius policies of former Mayor Katz, the zoning regulations mean no malt liquor for sale here, sorry folks! How can this place call itself Plaid Pantry, let alone the #72 of all convenience stores, sans Malt Liquor?!?
Looking through the aisles of this Plaid Pantry, and the god-​forsaken endless variety of sweets and other diabetes-​if-​you-​please goodies, one is painfully reminded of the eternal truth, that candy may indeed be dandy, but Malt Liquor’s so much quicker…