If you’ve ever walked around Waikiki, you’ve probably spotted an ABC Store or two. Or five. Or probably 15.
The locally-owned convenience stores are virtually everywhere, selling everything from beach mats, groceries and liquor to souvenirs, sunscreen, and aloha shirts.
In the one and a half-square mile radius that makes up Waikiki, you’ll find 34 ABC Stores. Thirty-four. Locals like to think (incorrectly) that the name stands for, “All Blocks Covered” because you can pass three stores on one block.
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ABC Stores continue to be a family-owned and operated business with 77 locations spread across each of the main Hawaiian islands, Las Vegas, Guam and Saipan.
Their most successful stores, however, remain on Kalakaua Avenue, the same street that Kosasa’s parents opened their first ABC Store half a century ago.
