It’s not unusual to walk in to South Park’s Junc Life & Style and see a completely different store than the one you saw on your last visit. On a whim, owner Jeffrey Parish might decide that he’s bored with the color of the walls or that the jewelry display looks better over here than over there. Parish, who used to own Normal Heights’ Sugar, moved his men’s and women’s clothing-and-accessories store to South Park five years ago, because of his love of the community, and the pull to include home design, furniture and his quirky spacial taste to the mix.

The charm of Junc is its gestalt; that immediate impression you get the moment you walk through the door and take it all in. It’s a store with lots of come-hither—the kind of place that fans of independent retail have been wanting to see more of in San Diego.