About the Store

Little's is on 13th and Patterson Alley. Directly next door is Max's Tavern. Besides being the biggest draw of the block, Max's can be a blessing and a curse to Little's. For instance, whenever you see a Little's employee surfing the net, they do so with a connection to Max's router. But if you come to Little's on a Friday or Saturday night, the employee won't even have time to use the internet with all of the Max's customers buying their nightly essentials. However, there are many Max's customers and employees that are personable and friendly so our relationship is not strained.
Across the street is High Priestess tattoo parlor. I have frequent interactions with the employees there because they all smoke cigarettes and guess who the closest cigarette retailer is... Also, many of their customers use our ATM for their tattoo payments. Most of their employees are well-behaved and use manners, which almost doesn't fit because (and I'm not placing judgment or anything) they all have numerous tattoos and piercings and usually you'd suspect someone with excessive piercings and tattoos to be less mannerly, but that certainly isn't the case here.
A few other noteworthy places in the surrounding area: Aaliyah (sp?) brothers carpet cleaning. These guys are just old and buy their lunch in the store. Harmless, beneficial. The florist is just a half block away and every now and then one of their employees will come in. Occasionally I'll be targeted for flower sales which always catches me off guard. Hospital/various surrounding medical buildings means a lot of people in scrubs come in to buy their soda and cigarettes (irony?). The laundromat is across the street too. This can be frustrating if their change machine is out of quarters because guess who always has change for quarters and happens to be across the street...
Hope this gives you a better idea of the surrounding area. My next post will be on the regular customers, and if I have time, a list of things they do that I like/dislike. But until then, have a nice day!

Welcome to the Little's blog!

This blog is an account of any bizarre, out-of-the-ordinary interactions with Eugene's finest. You see I work at Little's Market and Deli on 13th and Patterson Alley. It's a convenience store situated three blocks from the U of O campus and only about four from downtown Eugene. This means that the type of person who walks through the doors can vary from a homeless person to college student to local working stiff to the retired and elderly. Eugene is blessed to have the multitude of people that it does because they keep the city diverse and entertaining.
My goal for this blog is to document life in this particular area through an almost neutrally subjective outlook. I'll provide anecdotes of things I see and hear that are either funny or shocking, or might provide the reader with some degree of new perspective. I will try to post at least once per shift but this may vary if something really cool happens. So please read these stories and hopefully you'll find them to be interesting or at least not boring. And as always, have a nice day!