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7-Eleven in Houston

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by KaiSeR SoZe, Mar 17, 2006.

  1. KaiSeR SoZe

    KaiSeR SoZe Member

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    Why the hell don't we have a 7-eleven in Houston anymore? The company was founded in Texas damn it! I want a slurpy! their slurpy commercials should be banned in Houston since they don't have any damn stores
     
  2. A-Train

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    7-11 got bought by Stop N Go, which got bought by another company, IIRC...

    Yep, slurpees did rock the casbah, though. I remember Stop N Go used to sell "The Hoss" back in the day. I think it was a 64 oz. soda. My friends and I used to gulp down one hoss every day during the summer.

    Anybody remember slush puppies? Talk about a sugar rush...
     
  3. TMac640

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    Give me two bucks, you take a puff
    And pass my bomb back
    Suck up the dank like a slurpy, the serious bomb
    Will make a ***** go delirious like Eddie Murphy
     
  4. BobFinn*

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    Used to buy a ton of Baseball Cards and Comic Books at the Stop-N-Go on Antoine, way way back, before most of you were born :D

    "Old Days, Good Times I Remember"-Chicago
     
  5. Aceshigh7

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    which proceeded to run the chain into the ground..
     
  6. FlyerFanatic

    FlyerFanatic YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO!?! YEEEHAAWW
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    I get Sonic and 7-11 commercials all the time in Dayton, yet there are non near me. So annoying because those slurpee deals are awesome
     
  7. DallasThomas

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    7-Eleven usually has the cheapest beer out of any convenience store, too. Half the time it even beats out HEB and other grocers.

    Yay living in Austin!!!
     
  8. wakkoman

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    It's all about the taquitos!
     
  9. Rockets2K

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    actually....

    which got bought out by Diamond Shamrock, which got bought by Valero.


    we used to spend bookoo time at our neighborhood 7-11...get a large slurpee...and spend hours playing the video games.

    We knew all our clerks on a first name basis. ;)
     
  10. BobFinn*

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    R2K, I actually bought my first 45 (that's a record with 2 songs on it for you young uns) at Stop N Go, it was "Can't Get Enough"- Bad Co.

    Just thought you would like to know :)
     
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    Every time I'm in Austin I stop by 7-Eleven to get a Mountain Dew Slurpee. :D
     
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    Y'all do realize that the history is:

    UTotem = 7-11(because that's what their new hours were) = Stop N Go = Diamond Shamrock = Valero.

    IOW, If you want a 7-11, go to Valero, dummy. Hellll, Valero's a few years away from their name being 24-7, anyway.
     
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    damn for real, i still have those 10cent refill big mugs for 7/11
     
  14. Dr of Dunk

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    7-11 is still around and doing well... just not in Houston.

    It's funny, but 7-11 was started in the 'hoods of Dallas (Oak Cliff) back in the 20's or 30's I think. I believe their US (?) headquarters are in Dallas. Well, something is here in Dallas anyway, I got a job interview offer from them. :D

    It's owned by a Japanese company now... weird trivia I found out while talking to the interviewer - there ar more 7-11's in Japan than there are in the US... around twice as many.
     
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    No more squeezing the JUHHH-UUUICE!!!
     
  16. Dr of Dunk

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    7-11 was never "bought out" as a company by Stop N Go. They just got out of the Houston market.


    Those of you at UH have connection with UTotem. Leroy Melcher started the company (of the UH bidniz school fame). I once read the history of convenience store mergers and takeovers and it's plain nuts. You'd get a migraine trying to keep up with it.
     
  17. Rockets2K

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    It would look like a buy out to those of us here, since in many cases the actual stores passed ownership straight from 7-11 to Stop and Gos in many neighborhoods.

    I remember Utotems...those and the Circle Ks that used to be around here.
     
  18. KaiSeR SoZe

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    some Circle K's became Stop N Gos as well...

    speaking of Circle K, there are bunch in Corpus Christie
     
  19. droxford

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    7-11 got run out of Houston by Bible thumpers (for selling pornographic magazines). I remember the protests, and a woman saying "I don't see how we can 'thank heaven for seve eleven' when they're selling poronography to our children!" I'll never forget that. I hated that.

    Anyway, 7-11 basically just said, "screw you guys" and pulled out of the Houston market.
     
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    Thats the same with MN. The convenience store market here is dominated by two companies that don't seem to exist outside of the upper-midwest, Holiday and Super America, but are ubiquitous here.

    What I always thought was interesting is that in Singapore 7-11's are all over the place with slurpee flavors like soursop, sweet corn and durian.
     

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