There were 148 convictions exclusively for robbing a convenience store in Virginia during 1991. The median sentence for a convicted convenience store robber was 10 years. It is estimated that each robber will serve 4-1/2 years in prison at a cost in 1991 of $76,500. The total number of offenders now serving time in Virginia prisons exclusively for robbing a convenience store exceeds 500. Robbery of convenience stores has risen 38 percent nationally and 51 percent in Virginia over the 1985-1991 period. Sixty-five localities reported 1,020 violent crimes in their stores: 6 homicides, 4 abductions, 6 rapes, 7 other sexual assaults, 12 malicious woundings, 923 robberies, and 62 attempted robberies. The majority of violent crimes in Virginia's convenience stores occurs at a small number of stores and is suffered by a disproportionately small number of Virginia's localities. 11 figures and 39 references