Murry’s Food & Wine

Mostly they don’t even try. 90% of the shop is just years old stock that never dies. Things like cans of beans, pickled gherkins, cans of Fosters and an endless supply of chewing gum. Great place to shop when the nuclear apocalypse is upon us, but until then I think I’ll shop elsewhere.
It doesn’t help that everything is marked-​up and dust-​marked, that the shop is dirty and that the owner slouches smoking in the doorway all day before getting his friends to serve you with disdain. Hardly inviting, is it?
Occasionally they do try something extra to entice in a new customer in, like the pansy baskets in May which were great until they died. Still it was an improvement on the previous lame plastic made-​in-​Shenzhen toys section that was creepily advertised by arranging electrical tape on the window to spell TOYS.
(it reminded me of Fox Mulder putting an ‘X’ on his window to attract alien experts in The X Files, but instead this TOYS version feels like the creepy old man trying to attract kids)
Until the apocalypse, this store only exists ‘cos it sells booze until 2am.