Dagg’s Deli

This place smells funky, almost like a barn. As other said, no deli

Guys at the counter are friendly, they sell your typical convenience store items at convenience store prices. Hangout for local retirees to play keno. They carry San Pellegrino soda, which is great when the trek to Stop and Shop is too much in the heat. There is no deli inside.

This place needs to be taken over with something more useful— like a high quality, community friendly café/​sandwich shop or the very needed casual burrito place.

Well, at least the deli part of the sign outside is gone. The Deli departed after the new owners took over years ago, although the remnants of the counter still remain.
OK. First off, unlike a few years ago, the staffs here now are extraordinarily friendly and welcoming upon your entrance to the store. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much where the «good» ends.
The (new) owner (s) don’t seem to me to be very astute business people. There are vast areas of shelving and refrigerators that are completely void of any stock, and have been so for probably more than are year. This gives the store a bleak, unkempt sort of look. From a purely business perspective, this doesn’t make a lot of sense. You can’t make a lot of profit when you have little to sell. It also gives the store a rather shabby and uninviting look.
Their prices are a bit higher than most convenience stores generally, and I did come across a few items that were insanely overpriced, but overall, their pricing is fairly tolerable if you are only buying a hand full of items.
The dingy lighting does them no favor either. A casual passerby might easily get the impression that the store is either closed or out of business.
The recently installed pseudo-​Starbucks type of coffee service area, isn’t very inviting either. It does seem to me to be run by or as a separate business from the store itself (the «store» staff didn’t seem to be involved with it and another gentleman appeared to me to «be in charge» of it). It’s not attractive looking, and I have to say I’m certainly not inclined to buy coffee from it.
There is a noticeable lack of snacks foods, e.g., they have absolutely no Hostess products whatsoever (when Hostess was still around!) a few other brands of snacks. Their beverage selection is the most minimal I’ve ever seen, and they certainly have tons of space to expand on it. Their freezer items are again extremely minimal, again with tons of room to add some additional products.
Even though it really isn’t, the look of the store gives the impression that it is not all that clean. Mostly that’s because the flooring really could stand replacing, and the ceiling is old and bit dirty looking. If you look close enough, it’s really not unclean at all, it jsut appears that way with a pssing glance. If they painted the walls and spruced up the flooring, I think that would brighten the place up significantly.
About the only use I have for it is to grab a drink when I get my lunch across the street at the Tiki Inn Chinese Take-​out. It is cheaper here than the restaurant, and of course, you don’t have to pay any meal tax on it.
In short, if you need to buy a few household staples, be it milk or flour or the like, you’ll probably spend more here than most other similar stores. And there are better options not all that far away.

This place is not a deli. Deli counter is gone.

Not really a deli. They should change their name to «non-​chain» convenience store. The stuff is b a s i c. You can pick up milk, salt, tp, or whatever out of the forty items they have there. That is about it. Oh, yeah, they have magazines, candy and lotto tickets too. Don’t expect anything related to a deli.

The least enjoyable of my 3 Arlington Convenience Stores Near My Ladyfriend’s Crib.
I walked in here to get coffee before the Metallica show, solely because Quebrada was closed (see review, and then get in your conestoga wagon and wagon train your ass over there for some JAVA). It’s called Dagg’s Deli, but I saw no deli. I’m sure they have bologna and 24 slice packs of american cheese, but that doesn’t count.
I walked in, got 2 dirty looks, one each from the 2 guys behind the counter. I then pushed myself a large coffee from that snorkel type dispenser they have, knowing full well that it would be A) stale and 6) not hot enough. It was both. It didn’t taste THAT bad, considering it was a convenience store, but still… there’s better coffee to be had, even in the C-​Store League.
The place is enormous, and there are kitchen counters on the window side of the store with cabinets underneath them. Odd.
As I was pouring the coffee, I got this funny sensation that I should just drop the full cup and book it out of there. It was as if I knew the $ 2 was as good as spent, and I may as well make the scary looking dude (the aforementioned chap who glared as if he’d knife me if I crossed him) mop it up. 2 stars because this was amusing, and there’s really no such thing as a 1 star convenience store, is there children???