CLM Variety Store

CLM Variety Store operates a storefront at 4128 North State Road 7 in Lauderdale Lakes, directly along the corridor’s commercial strip near several of the city’s Caribbean grocers and markets. Business directories categorize it simply as a Variety Store, the catch-all classification for small shops selling a broad mix of household goods, everyday essentials, and general merchandise rather than any single specialty category.

The business runs a second location a short drive away at 5522 West Oakland Park Boulevard in neighboring Lauderhill, listed under the same phone number, 954-731-0551, which points to a single small operation running two storefronts rather than two unrelated businesses that happen to share a name. The Lauderhill location’s listed hours, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., give a reasonable sense of what to expect from the Lauderdale Lakes storefront as well, though hours specific to the Lauderdale Lakes address itself were not separately confirmed and should be checked by phone before a visit.

Florida’s Division of Corporations lists the registered entity, CLM Variety Store, Inc., filed in 2013, as currently inactive for lapsed annual filings. As with several other small, independently run shops along this same stretch of State Road 7, an inactive corporate status is not unusual for a business of this size and does not by itself indicate the store has closed, particularly since the listing continues to appear as active on both Yellow Pages and SuperPages. It does mean that anyone needing to confirm the business’s exact legal or ownership status for a reason beyond simply shopping there should verify directly with the store rather than relying on the state filing alone.

Variety stores like this one occupy a particular niche in a commercial corridor otherwise dominated by grocery, jewelry, and footwear retailers: a single stop for the kind of miscellaneous household items, from cleaning supplies to small housewares to seasonal goods, that would otherwise require a trip to a big-box store outside the city. For residents living along North State Road 7 without easy access to a car, having that kind of general merchandise available within walking distance of the Caribbean markets and other small shops on the same block matters more than it might in a neighborhood built around larger anchor stores.

CLM Variety Store is not part of any regional or national retail chain. It is a small, two-location operation confined to Lauderdale Lakes and immediately neighboring Lauderhill, run under a single Florida corporate registration, and it represents the kind of general merchandise shop that has become less common as dollar-store chains have expanded into many of the same neighborhoods this store has served for over a decade.