After a month-long closure for a renovation, the 14th St. Candy & Grocery is back in retail action here just east of First Avenue.
As you can see, there are plenty of noticeable changes... the storefront has a cleaner look with the open windows. The aisle of snack products is gone. And where are the variety of Wise products, like the Ridgies?
Also note the large variety of water pipes, bubblers and water filtration systems in which to enjoy non-tobacco products now on display. Other changes include lottery vending machines.
8 comments:
This is like polishing a turd. All the crazy violent homeless and junkies will still loiter in front of the store. The scaffolding in front of the post office has drawn a lot of wanderers and crime and violent incidents have gone up. Back when Blimpie was where the hotdog place is now, there was never that much trouble.
They have transformed a cluttered yet functional place into a grand empty area ringed with bongs and cold drinks. Can't buy a newspaper there any more either. Is the bong business that good?
I have no reason to ever go into this cold, antiseptic looking place.
yes- the bong business is that good.
'crazy violent homeless'? Those are your un sheltered neighbors who are 'experiencing homelessness.' You are showing your 'housing privilege'. You need to show compassion for the unhoused. Otherwise you are racist, classist, elitist etc.
No Ridgies™, they don't get my business.
These antiseptic vap joints are all over yet they rarely have any business - how much RAW paper can they sell in a month?
@2:14pm: I think they make their $$ selling cigarettes & lottery tickets - and vape supplies, of course.
We have a huge population of High School and College students around who are precisely the ones Juul is actually aimed at (regardless of their ads saying differently; it's interesting that Juul didn't get 'concerned' about young people using their products until they'd gotten lots of them hooked). Once captured, that is a steady or increasing market, as most of them stay addicted - and it's a pretty pricey thing to "need."
How is it legal to sell bongs?
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