# 7-Eleven closing 400 stores **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 13, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714 "2024-10-13T14:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/81 "2024-10-14T15:07:20Z")
> [@fedman1](#): > > don’t forget QuikTrip, made to order food, best convenience store for food (and everything else) True, if you’re an area served by QuikTrip. They have expanded rapidly in the last decade, but have just 1105 locations in 19 states. And 5 of those states have less than 10 stores. [QuikTrip Locations in the United States](https://locations.quiktrip.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/82 "2024-10-14T15:27:09Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a 7-11. “Day or Night” (curiously not open over-night, here) are the stores I’ve seen. The conv. store in my little village is “The Pit-stop” Since the sign is hand painted, I’m sure it’s not a franchise branded place. Big sign on the door “No restroom-don’t ask” They do have pizza, dusty sodas (not really cold), bait, lots of smoking things, questionable candy-I’m convinced came from Dollar Tree, an ATM machine with an out-of-order note taped on, a hateful clerk. Hot food, ok I would not even look at, much less eat. And of course beer. Lots and lots of beer. In the Beer cave. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/83 "2024-10-14T15:55:01Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > The Tokyo 7-11s sell Japanese whiskey at cheap prices. When we were recently there, you could buy Jim Beam for less than you could buy in the US (well, at least what we see it for in Idaho). Not sure how that works… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/84 "2024-10-14T16:08:28Z")
In Argentina there is a convenience store called “Open 25 Hours”. The one I saw closed at 7pm. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/85 "2024-10-14T16:33:33Z")
I have memories of stopping at 7-Eleven for candy after working up an appetite spending an afternoon swimming at the YMCA pool as a kid. Then at some point in the late 1980s all the 7-Eleven stores in our region got rebranded as The Pantry seemingly overnight. Since moving to California I live in a place that has 7-Eleven stores again, but I don’t think I’ve really shopped at one recently. Nothing against 7-Eleven, it’s just that I rarely shop at convenience stores. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/86 "2024-10-14T17:17:48Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > In Argentina there is a convenience store called “Open 25 Hours”. The one I saw closed at 7pm. Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke: “I went to a 7-Eleven, and the guy was locking the front door. I pointed at the sign on the door: ‘It says you’re open 24 hours.’ The guy said, ‘Not in a row.’” ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/87 "2024-10-14T21:53:41Z")
7-11 bought the Speedway chain of ~ **3,800** gas stations/convenience stores in 2021. Given the sheer number of branded 7-11s and the additional host of Speedways this feels more like a minor adjustment to the market not a sign of impending doom. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/88 "2024-10-15T03:59:53Z")
Two 7-11s have recently opened near my apartment here in Beijing. Each of the shops is approximately one mile from my apartment. If the companies on the decline, they’ve an odd way of manifesting it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/89 "2024-10-15T15:06:54Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > If you’re into hot food, you can’t get that at Walgreens. If you want cigarettes, a lot of Walgreens no longer carry them. You can’t buy lotto tickets at Walgreens. There’s no fountain soda at Walgreens. Walgreens is cutting more stores that 7-Eleven: > **[Walgreens to close 1,200 US stores](https://apnews.com/article/walgreens-closing-drugstores-fiscal-fourth-quarter-5df931861e1e4111eaa5ef2372ec173a)** > > Walgreens plans to close about 1,200 locations over the next three years as the drugstore chain seeks to turnaround its struggling U.S. business. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/90 "2024-10-15T15:09:42Z")
These announcements make me nervous. We only one Walgreens in my small town. All my prescriptions are filed there. I’d have to drive 8 miles to the next town that has a Walgreens. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/91 "2024-10-15T15:17:00Z")
Small towns are too economically inefficient to continue to exist much longer. Soon rural counties will have a county seat and a bunch of vacant or farmed land and that’s it. Hell, some counties won’t even have a seat anymore as counties have to merge together as the population there shrinks to zero. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/92 "2024-10-15T15:31:46Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Walgreens is cutting more stores that 7-Eleven [And CVS is closing 900 stores, although it sounds like many of those scheduled for the chopping block have already been shuttered.](https://apnews.com/article/cvs-health-second-quarter-forecast-f33d2efd085550ea64db30c7aca578db) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/93 "2024-10-15T15:35:48Z")
Hell, Walgreen’s and CVS could make their closure quota in Las Vegas alone. There’s one every 100’ it seems like. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/94 "2024-10-15T15:39:06Z")
Today I learned that Speedway is wholly owned by 7-Eleven. This thread made me curious, so I went to the 7-Eleven website and did the “stores near me” thing. There are no 7-Elevens anywhere near me, but a bunch of Speedway locations showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/95 "2024-10-15T17:03:14Z")
I feel a sense of loss way out of proportion. It’s like the world is going backwards. Convenience stores were supposed to be everywhere. It’s in the name! The Future was supposed to be a bright shiny one of shopping ease. 24 hr stores! Everything available! Of course, it probably doesn’t help that I haven’t been in a 7-11 in 30 years. but, still! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/96 "2024-10-15T17:05:04Z")
But in many parts of the country, supermarkets are open 24 hours a day, as are some drugstores. So convenience stores aren’t as critical. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/97 "2024-10-15T17:07:48Z")
Life without convenience stores would be miserable. The grocery stores are so big. Milk is always on the back wall. Bread on a side wall. Soda in the middle. Groceries deliberately force shoppers to walk all around the store. Hoping for impulse buying. I never buy small stuff at a grocery store unless I’m in there anyway buying my main groceries. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/98 "2024-10-15T17:08:19Z")
Around here, supermarkets were never 24 hours except for the Wal\*Mart Supercenter, which _used_ to be 24 hours but stopped 10 or so years ago. The local CVS also used to be 24 hours but stopped 5 or so years ago. I actually needed to go to that one in the middle of the night when I suddenly got a fever and only had aspirin rather than ibuprofen. If that happened to me again, I’d have to go to the 24 hour 7/11. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/99 "2024-10-15T17:11:42Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > But in many parts of the country, supermarkets are open 24 hours a day, In my area, the tenth larges metro area in the country, all supermarkets _used_ to be 24 hours. We have more people now, by a lot, but they now all close at 10. It just _seems_ backwards, like a regression. In 1980, the stores used to close at 5, so I guess we’re still ahead of the past. For now… ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714/100 "2024-10-15T17:23:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The grocery stores are so big. Milk is always on the back wall. Bread on a side wall. Soda in the middle. Groceries deliberately force shoppers to walk all around the store. Sounds like a good way to get your steps in every day. I’d drive an extra 5 miles to get milk at Safeway rather than 7-Eleven. But I get that other people are not me. > [@aceplace57](#): > > Life without convenience stores would be miserable. Or indistinguishable from how things are now. It just depends how you use them (or not). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-eleven-closing-400-stores/1008714.md?page=6)