AA Market

AA market is my corner store! David is always friendly and he usually greets me with a «Hey Boss» when I walk through the door. There’s a great selection of groceries, canned goods, ice cream, beer, wine and spirits. I like that they carry 21^st amendment beer in cans.

I no longer live across the street from this place, but it served me well for four years so it deserves some stars. This place has probably caused some liver damage and I love that it’s called the AA market, Ive always enjoyed the guys who work
here because they are friendly and the main guy would also let me
know when a new shipment of gum balls had arrived– what a pal. Also, I love the variety of popsicles, vitamin water and Kombucha.

Support your local businesses!
I’ve been going here for years. I moved out of the neighborhood but came back to see some friends one evening and the owner told me he isn’t doing so well. There’s a bi-​rite being put in this winter and it’s probably gonna shut down a lot of the local places.
Support your local business owners. Bi-​rite doesn’t special order stuff, nor do they know your name and let you run a tab and not bug you about it even when you started the tab while drunk.
I love this store and you will too! $ 2 for a loaf of bread! Awesome!

came in here to grab some snacks. the guy at the counter was very nice.
this is a pretty large, well-​lit corner market. they seem to focus more on grocery type items than on liquor and junk food.
most of their sweet snacks seemed to be sold out, same with the fresh fruit sold in baskets in the front of the store.
i bought some chips and a bag of nuts, then noticed that they had a bottle of german fig vodka. it brought me back to karnaval memories, so i had to buy it. he said he’d had two bottles for a long time, no one had purchased it. just my luck. the liquor ended up costing $ 13.13, but he only charged me $ 13 on my credit card.
now i just have to figure out what to mix it with.

I’m cautiously writing a review of this place. I didn’t want to write it. My legion of fans (all twenty-​five of them) might overrun this place. It might become Hottest in the past month, based on bookmarks, and then it would be overrun by people who would declare it the next NOPA or Nopalito, would clamor for it to change its name to NopAA Market, because, God, doesn’t everything that’s worth anything in this neighborhood have to have the word Nopa in it? Doesn’t it? I’m asking you.
Anyway, I was also skeptical of this place because it’s so close to Nimer’s, and that place is shady, although to be fair I haven’t ever been inside. I hadn’t ever been inside here, either, until I bit the bullet and ducked in rather than look like an idiot waiting for the walk sign at that dangerous pedestrian corner of Fulton & Broderick. (Honestly, I sometimes feel self-​conscious waiting for the signal. I normally cross so as not to appear anal, but if there were no one around, I would wait for the signal, even with traffic clear.)
I was in luck, they had RC. I grabbed the bottle and waited in line behind a friendly woman who was talking locals-​who-​know-​each-​other shop with the friendly cashier. When I put my bottle on the counter, he rang up $ 1.25. $ 1.25! For twenty ounces! Most places are charging $ 1.79, but not AA Market.
I came in here the other day, grabbed another RC, and paid. .. $ 1.13! Twelve cents fewer than before! For the same drink!
This corner store is perfect. I love it. I only wish I lived closer to it. It will probably spoil my relationship with Divisadero Farmers Market, as I’ll be resentful every time they charge me $ 1.79 when I could be paying $ 1.13.
UPDATE: 5÷25÷09
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OK, so I’m docking AA Market a star for being wheelchair inaccessible. The entrance has a stair that should be turned into a ramp.

I went for their great selection of Hagen Daaz (pomegranite and dark chocolate, carmalized pear with pecan — what what!)
I stayed for the giant tub of tiny plastic dog figurines. I dug through until I found one sort of resembling a boston terrier, paid a whopping 75 cent for it, walked home in a giggly state of bliss over my treasures and spent the rest of the evening devouring heavenly ice cream and trying to find an appropriate place for my stupid new toy.
yipee.

It’s my local liquor store, I mean, Hazem and David are practically family, I mean, you simply just must love San Francisco where no matter where I move I know a six pack of Heineken, a pack of Emergen-​C, and a cat food is thirty seven seconds away, in a poorly cleaned, blindingly bright, overpriced convenience store where they let me run a tab and forgive me when I’m super stoned and hold the ice cream freezer open for like five minutes while i decide between Americone Dream or Mint Chocolate Chip

I used to live down the block from this corner market, and had to write about it. It was a time in my life where I was drinking quite a bit, and using the corner-​market-​services quite frequently (said time being college).
The hilarious name, A.A. Market (Alcoholics Anonymous Market, and you could really come up with lots more), the great store attendees that ask you about the weather and other meaningless jabber with great sincerity, good beer selection, and good drunk munchie selection.
I was sad the day I moved away from this block, and even sadder saying adiós to my small-​town feel corner market.

Great little corner market on my block staffed by some really nice people. Great beer selection for a corner market, and they even carry Shiner which helps make this ex-​pat Texan a little less homesick. A great little market that I’m happy to have in my neighborhood.

Habibi takes care of me when I’m in need. I need beer… habibi is there. I need emergency rations of chips — habibi is there. AA Market is a great corner store with super friendly habibis (friends in Arabic). They are always welcoming and always cracking jokes. They have seen the worst of me and the best of me and just like good liquor store owners… they love me for who I am… an alcoholic they can sell liquor to! Get down to the most ironically named liquor store in the city… AA Liquors rocks the Casabah!

«AA Market?»
Irony at its finest. You know I’m there. Plus, it’s less than a block from my house. Which is important, because I’m lazy. I mean, really lazy. Sometimes I lay in bed wishing it would rain Ben & Jerry’s. Wouldn’t that be delicious? Sure, it’d get a little sticky, but like Grandpa used to say, everything good in life is a little sticky.
Minus one star for charging me to use my debit card.
PS: Now that you know where I live, plz don’t stalk me, k thx.

Neighborhood corner markets are why I love the city — if I run out of beer, I just walk across the street! Their prices are decent and they have some excellent beers, which is all you can ask for in your corner market. They play middle eastern music but they must have better taste than the other markets, because I often find myself bobbing my head to the beats.
The guys behind the counter are great. I even convinced them to start carrying Session Lager. They haven’t put it on the shelf yet, but there’s some in the back if I ask for it.
I do get some funny looks when I tell my friends I’m going to «AA» to get beer.
Update: They sell the Session beer next to the Pabst now!

Very friendly guy runs this little market and most of the prices are better than the D-​Street mini-​marts nearby. Decent selection. The ATM charge is $ 1.90.

I have been a critic of liquor stores for many years. I can recall most of the impressive liquor stores I have lived near, what they had in stock, and how kind (or rude) the owners and employees are or were. When we were looking for a new place to live in 2005, we found a dream house, but the house was not the only part of the dream. While walking up the street to view this apartment, I saw something that made me want to cry. AA Market.
Think about it. AA liquor store. AA Liquor??? We saw the apartment, said we’d think about it, and then headed into AA…
They have everything there.
Charmin — check
Jameson at a great price — check
Organic American Spirits — check
Stone brewery beers — check
A wonderful selection of natural juices — check
Shiner bock — check
(I could go on and on and on and on. If they don’t have it, they will order it for you. Amazing)
The owner is kind. The evening/​night clerk is Hazim. He rules. He will sit and rock out to some eastern beats while turning Bill Cosby out with his choice of sweaters. Highly recommended.
By the way, we got the apartment and AA Market RULES.