Boudin is a nearly off the charts per capital convenience in SW Louisiana (even without counting gas stations):
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Ăpicerie is the word for grocery store in Quebec. Some do have hot tables, and some are quite small compared to a typical chain grocery store.
Hereâs a recent article about the dĂ©panneurs during Covid
Of course, sales are up at the small Úpiceries and chain grocery stores, as well as at the dépanneurs, these days!
Quite a few small restaurants in Toronto have become a hybrid of a takeout restaurant, bottle shop and corner store, to make ends meet. Before Covid shut things down, restaurants couldnât sell cocktails, wine or beer to go. Iâve noticed some gas station marts have liquor and beer available now, which is also new here.
Quite a few Toronto-resto turned bottle shop/corner store have Instagram feeds marketting their goods. Like this one. https://instagram.com/luckypennyto?igshid=fjijh7hty00d
Hereâs a popular upscale bottle shop/convenience store/resto in Montreal. https://instagram.com/tuckshopmtl?igshid=z1zyg2tsvruj
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Wawa rocks. In its original road stop form and in hybrid version today. The one built in the area recently is more grocer than ever. A family of six would be wise to stop there than many other convenience and fast food joints.
The muffins are great. Shhhh, donât tell anyone else.
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I recently read an article about the founding family of Wawa. Seems this familyâs ethics came out of a different book than the one Sam Walton read. 
This is the link for Cedar Grill Café , a takeout restaurant located at a gas station in Del Mar, just north of San Diego, convenient to the I5. I was impressed with my sandwich, and his chicken looked amazing.
http://cedargrillcafe.com/Home_Page.php
Is Sam Walton et al spotless?
Donât typically stop at C-Stores, except when on the road, but Iâve had some excellent food at a random few. Specifically, when I was living and working in Utah, there was a place just up the road from work that made excellent fried chicken and JoJo potatoes. That was a quick lunch to eat in the park. Also as someone mentioned upthread, in Louisiana, Boudin. Around the Lafayette area, everyone seemed to know the C-stores had the best.
In my relative neck of the woods, corn dogs on the way to the Oregon coast. Much better than state fair type, IME, anyway.
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Iâm 414 miles from the closest Wawa (the 2 locations just south of Scranton) . Iâll have to check one out next time I visit a state that has them!
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I do miss Wawaâs from my college days in Philadelphia, even if the Iâm campus Wawaâs were kind of gross. I had lunch at Wawaâs at least 2-3 times a week when I was a student. 
I go to Philadelphia for work on occasion, and the new ones in center city are far nicer and more stuff too.
I guess the Boston area ones just arenât that impressive. I also find myself running into a local CVS or even Walgreens to pick up snacks more than a convenient store. My visiting Australian cousins were so confused why our pharmacies served as convenience stores too. 
And jumping from the other thread, not only in Japan, but convenience stores in Taiwan and Hong Kong are equally fun with some good foodie finds if you ever visit those areas.
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I buy the Wednesday New York Times for their food section at our local 7-11. Really nice people!
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