Walking down the Hood looking at the stores.

My Co worker and I were picking up snacks for the staff.  As we drove down the Street we were laughing about all the stores and things you will find only in a hood.  You will always see is a Save a Lot but never see a Whole Foods.  You see the same three phone companies in every hood and they are always close together. Cricket, Metro, and Boost Mobile.  There are also several cell phone businesses that have a lot of other inexpensive phone companies.  We do not have Verizon, Sprint, or ATT.  We have several stores that sell pop, candy, chips, blunts, and Cigarettes. In these stores, several of them have food like pizza and fried chicken.  They also sell Triple Beam scales and tobacco pipes and grinders which most people use for illegal drugs.

When you walk down any business district in most hoods you will find 1 or more of the following stores. Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, and Dollar General.  You will see several check cashing places and ACE has a reloadable card that you can get your pay check direct deposited to and even get your pay up to two days early.  Places that sell fried chicken and fish also does quite well in the hood.

Rent A Center and other places where you can rent to earn are also on every block.  Rainbow, Citi Trends, and other low priced clothing stores are right at home on the block.  Hair places where you can buy weave is on every corner and also barber shops and beauty shops.  Since you can be a barber and an ex con at the same time with no issues.


For the people who do not have cars people in the hood rely on Car Services otherwise known as Jitneys.  They are always located in one hood or another although they are not as common as when I was child because of robberies and homicides.


Yes the hood has unique businesses but this is what is sold in the hood.  We laugh at what we have and don't have because it is funny to us but in reality that is what is important in the hood.