Paul’s Market

I was amazed to see that this little place was still around. I passed by it everyday on the way to college… almost 30 years ago. Every once in a great while, my friend and I would stop by for a cheeseburger sub on the way home. It was so fulfilling for a little market sub, I’ve never forgotten it to this day. It’s in a quiet little patch of a generally crowded part of town. It always had the atmosphere of a small town general store where you’d regularly stopped in on the way home from work for a gallon of milk, pack of smokes or magazine and a chat with the owner behind the register (circa 1957).
A couple of years ago, I happened to be driving through the area and made the snap decision to stop in. I recognized the same guy at the register from all those years ago, albeit a bit more tired looking and gray. I mentioned how I used to stop by after school in my early ‘20s. He told me he was about to retire, so I suspect someone else runs the place now. The sloppy old lettuce-​tomato-​mayo-​grilled onion cheeseburger sub and side of fries he grilled up was a trip to the past. The only things that changed were the magazine covers in the rack. I hope the rest of the place never does.
P. S. Unless things have drastically changed in the last two years, I don’t know what Adam B. is talking about. It was not «dirty» two years ago. It was old and worn-​in even 30 years ago but not «dirty.» The two terms are not synonymous. If your idea of a neighborhood market is a new Wawa or Royal Farms and your haven’t been to a lot of older places like this, you might think this way.

If I could give this zero stars I would. Everything about it is absolutely horrid. It smells like something died, it’s dirty, it doesn’t sell any «convenient» items though being a «convenience store», and the owner is extremely rude and his other employees do not know how to interact with a customer. It is simply a Disgusting place. I’ve given it a couple tries and every time I barely make it through the door because of the stench. You absolutely can judge a book by it’s cover on this one, ‘cus it gets much worse inside.