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
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...
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
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 "Old Days, Good Times I Remember"-Chicago
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-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!!!
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.
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
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
some Circle K's became Stop N Gos as well... speaking of Circle K, there are bunch in Corpus Christie
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.
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.
