Arivaca Mercantile

07/19/2025

If you have followed us for any amount of time, you probably know that we have a love-hate relationship with freezing units. They love to hate us.

We finally had to bite the bullet and get a new ice freezer out front. So meet the newest member of our family! She better last a long time if she knows what’s good for her. 🤣

07/18/2025

Oops, we missed National EMOJI Day yesterday! Dang it. Oh well, here’s my “ummm ope sorry bout that” favorite emojis and real life. 🤣

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Have a great Friday!

07/13/2025

July is Independent Retailer Month!

What a great time to visit your favorite independent retailers, no matter where the summer takes you!

On average in the USA, a small business keeps 67% of their revenue in their local community, and they often reinvest a higher percentage of their revenues back into their local area compared to "chain" stores.

Our amazing customers continue supporting us, allowing us to reinvest as much as possible back into ARIVACA! We have even more goals for the future that we are excited to be working toward.

You support us, we support you. Thank you to everyone who chooses to shop small, shop local. We appreciate you all.

07/08/2025

We recently received this 5 ⭐️ Google review from local Luke Brannen and we are so grateful for his kind words! Thank you, Luke, you made our day.

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day!

Come celebrate with us today starting at 10:00am.

07/04/2025

07/01/2025

JULY 4TH HOURS

Open Regular hours! We are always open during the parade if you need to get a cold bevvy or a frozen ice cream bar!

Road through town closes at 9:45am so please plan accordingly.

Hope to see y'all downtown on Friday to celebrate the USA!

06/28/2025

It’s been 5 years since we busted down a wall and moved the office into the old Post Office.

If you’re new here, or you have that CRS syndrome like we do, here’s a before and after shot of the office. The old office sat right where the beer cooler area is currently!

06/26/2025

Today is National Barcode Day! This proves there is nothing in this world we can’t put a celebration to.

Well, I guess we are obligated to talk about UPCs today. Universal Product Code, that's what UPC stands for. Look at you, doing all the learning today!

Did you know that we are regulated and regularly inspected by the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures to ensure our barcodes are all in order and ring up at the intended price?

Did you also know that, unlike some major grocery chains currently in the news, eh hem, we PASS our inspections every time!? And our posted pricing discrepancy policy is that if a product does ring up differently than the posted shelf label, we will honor the lower of the two.

Barcodes aren’t just for lookin’ snazzy, they help us track inventory, too!

QR codes are just another type of barcode, too, did you know that? They might look modern and high-tech, but they aren't really any different than your standard UPC string. They can just store more data, is all!

Fun Fact: Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum was the very first barcode introduced into the economy!

So, uhm…. Happy Barcode Day? Yeah, we don’t really get it, either, but we do like our UPCs here at the Merc!

Have a great Thursday, y’all.