History Main / TheConvenientStoreNextDoor

* OlderThanRadio: The SherlockHolmes story ''The Red-Headed League'' does this with a shop across the way from a bank.

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** "Mr. Monk And The Actor" played with this: A man breaks into a jewlery shop by smashing through the wall of the neighboring restaurant, [[spoiler: but the real point of this was to destroy that particular wall. The restaurant employed artists to sketch everyone who ate their and one such sketch depicted the man with the episode's murder victim shortly before he killed her.]]

* In 1869, Adam Worth and Charley Bullard broke into the Boyleston National Bank in Boston by renting the shop next door as "William A. Judson & Co", perveyors of Gray's Oriental Health Tonic. This was probably the inspiration for "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpider-Man'' episode "Damage Control", the Wrecking Crew busted into a laundromat during one of their rampages, intending to come back during the reconstruction and break through the wall into the bank next door.

* In an episode of ''{{Monk}}'', it wasn't the grocery store itself, but the parking space reserved for the employee of the month that provided easy access to a bank, thanks to a well-placed manhole. The scheming cashier killed her rival to get the space, parked her van with a modified floor over the manhole, and every day during her shift her two flunkies would dig, filling the van with dirt.

* For the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the conspirators needed a way to get a great amount of explosives inside of the parliament. Conveniently the basements right under the kings throne were for rent, making any tunnel digging attempts unneccessary.

* ''The Bank Job''
* The Edward G. Robinson movie ''Larceny, Inc.'' features the humorous subversion described above, with the luggage-store front turning a brisk business.
* In the French film ''Rififi'', criminals rent the office above a jewelery store and tunnel in through the ceiling.
* The WoodyAllen film ''Small Time Crooks''. They used a cookie store front while they try to tunnel across the street to the bank. They fail (to say the least), but the cookies are so popular, it turns them into instant millionaires.

* In ''Stark Raving Mad'' (2002), with a nightclub.

* In a'' HogansHeroes'' episode, Hogan had to go through The Convenient ''House'' Next Door to get to a bank. He distracts the owner of the house by sweet-talking her and playing Hitler's speeches ''reeeallly'' loud on the radio so Carter can use the jackhammer in the next room.

* A variation in ''WhiteCollar'' has Neil engineering an escape plan with Mozzie's help, involving setting up a bakery in some office space directly below a judge's chambers. The bakery opens on the day of Neil's hearing, and he uses its "Grand Opening" awning to make his escape.

* The SherlockHolmes story ''The Red-Headed League'' does this with a shop across the way from a bank. (That makes this OlderThanRadio.)

* ''ShortCircuit 2'', the villains were doing this to break into the bank when the protagonists buy the warehouse. The villains first try to drive the heroes away, then trick Johnny Five into digging the tunnel for them.

* The Edward G. Robinson movie ''Larceny, Inc.''
* In the French film ''{{Rififi}}'', criminals rent the office above a jewelery store and tunnel in through the ceiling.
* The WoodyAllen film ''SmallTimeCrooks''. They used a cookie store front while they try to tunnel across the street to the bank. They fail (to say the least), but the cookies are so popular, it turns them into instant millionaires.

* An episode of ''ChalkZone'' has the criminals attempt this kind of heist. However, the wall they're breaking through is a chalk surface, and the gang learned of the plan beforehand. HijinksEnsue.

* For the he Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the conspirators needed a way to get a great amount of explosives inside of the parliament. Conveniently the basements right under the kings throne were for rent, making any tunnel digging attempts unneccessary.

* An episode of ''Car54WhereAreYou?'' was based around an eatery next to a bank. A single scene at the end of the episode replayed the entire plot with the buildings' next owners, who were posing as stamp dealers.

* A variation in the first episode of ''WhiteCollar'' has Neil engineering an escape plan with Mozzie's help, involving setting up a bakery in some office space directly below a judge's chambers. The bakery opens on the day of Neil's hearing, and he uses its "Grand Opening" awning to make his escape.

* An episode of ''RescueRangers'' did this bizarrely by combining it with a "shoemaker and the elves" plot. It involved a restaurant next to a bank, and the "temporary owners" suffering from mysteriously appearing bowls of cheese chowder that were favored by the local police.

* For the he Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the conspirators needed a way to get a great amount of explosives inside of the parliament. Conveniently the basements right under the kings throne were for rent., making any tunnel digging attempts unneccessary.

* In the French film ''Rififi'', criminals rent the office above a jewelery store and tunnel in through the ceiling.
* The Woody Allen film ''Small Time Crooks''. They used a cookie store front while they try to tunnel across the street to the bank. They fail (to say the least), but the cookies are so popular, it turns them into instant millionaires.

* In an episode of ''Monk'', it wasn't the grocery store itself, but the parking space reserved for the employee of the month that provided easy access to a bank, thanks to a well-placed manhole. The scheming cashier killed her rival to get the space, parked her van with a modified floor over the manhole, and every day during her shift her two flunkies would dig, filling the van with dirt.
* In a HogansHeroes episode, Hogan had to go through The Convenient ''House'' Next Door to get to a bank. He distracts the owner of the house by sweet-talking her and playing Hitler's speeches ''reeeallly'' loud on the radio so Carter can use the jackhammer in the next room.

* Has happened in ''Hustle''.

* An episode of ''Rescue Rangers'' did this bizarrely by combining it with a "shoemaker and the elves" plot. It involved a restaurant next to a bank, and the "temporary owners" suffering from mysteriously appearing bowls of cheese chowder that were favored by the local police.
* An episode of ChalkZone has the criminals attempt this kind of heist. However, the wall they're breaking through is a chalk surface, and the gang learned of the plan beforehand. HijinksEnsue.

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* The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, convenient cellar and convenient armory selling gunpowder.

* ''Short Circuit 2'', the villains were doing this to break into the bank when the protagonists buy the warehouse. The villains first try to drive the heroes away, then trick Johnny Five into digging the tunnel for them.