# Mini-mart, 7-11, Convenience Store, Gas Station what do you call those places you buy bread & milk? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648 "2012-01-06T18:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/21 "2012-01-06T20:09:29Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Stop and Rob +1 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/22 "2012-01-06T20:10:25Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I always say “Kwik-E Mart” because of _The Simpsons_. Same here, but lately “the dépanneur” has been edging it out a bit, even though we’re on the wrong coast. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/23 "2012-01-06T20:11:07Z")
What? Nobody says “curb market”? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/24 "2012-01-06T20:13:42Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Stop and Rob I like this. I’m going to use it from on. I call it the gas station if they sell gas and if not then the store. If I’m going to 7-11 I say 7-11 because they have slurpees\* and I’m letting others know that there is a slurpee opportunity about to happen. \*The only reason I even go to 7-11 is to get a slurpee. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/25 "2012-01-06T20:15:58Z")
Around here, we have Sheetz, and a couple of other stores that I just call by their names. It’s easier that way. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/26 "2012-01-06T20:24:12Z")
It used to be Lawson’s. ☹ I think the industry wants us to call them “convenient stores.” But they’re “convenience stores” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/27 "2012-01-06T20:34:38Z")
The place I buy bread and milk type ingestibles is called the super market. The place I buy cigs and Monsters is called the mini-mart. When I lived in Toronto, it was all about the bodegas. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/28 "2012-01-06T20:45:38Z")
> [@kenner116](#): > > I’ll most likely say that I’m going to [Wawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawa_Food_Markets). I’m from Philly and yes, we go down to the Wawa for a Ho-Ho or a Ding-Dong. (You can’t get “arnj wudder-oice” there, though . . .) ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/29 "2012-01-06T20:48:57Z")
I call it the truck stop because if I’m actually going to a place like that to buy food, it’s the middle of the night and the only place open is the truck stop. Otherwise, I say I’m going to Rite Aid or Big Y or Big Bunny - depending on where I’m going. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/30 "2012-01-06T20:57:23Z")
South African here. I call it a ‘café’; this usage seems to be unique to South Africa (leastways I’ve never heard it anywhere else). We do also have cafés in the normal sense of the word. Alternatively I’d just call it a KwikSpar since that’s the name of the one I shop at. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/31 "2012-01-06T21:00:42Z")
Jiffy stores, usually. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/32 "2012-01-06T21:07:18Z")
When we lived in FL in the mid 80s, there was a chain called Jiffy, so generically, we call them Jiffy stores. If we mean a specific one, we’ll us its actual name, whether WaWa or Sheetz or 7-11. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/33 "2012-01-06T21:16:08Z")
Shit N Git ---
**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:** [January 6, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/34 "2012-01-06T21:23:22Z")
I’ve been trying to remember what the mini-mart on base was called. Every base has a BX and Commissary. But there was also a small quik-stop type grocery too. This was many years ago when I was a kid and dad was in the Air Force. Today they probably have the gas stations with markets in them just like off base. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/35 "2012-01-06T21:44:04Z")
I usually refer to where I’m going by name (“Goin’ to Paul’s” or “Goin’ to 7-11”), but I guess I’d refer to the lot of them as corner stores. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/36 "2012-01-06T21:48:48Z")
Dépanneur. It’s a Quebec thing. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/37 "2012-01-06T22:03:11Z")
Party store. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/38 "2012-01-06T22:11:00Z")
I call it “the little store.” When I was a kid, it was the “pack-a-sack.” ---
**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:** [January 6, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/39 "2012-01-06T22:18:12Z")
:eek: Pack-a-Sak - I haven’t thought of that word since I was 10. That brought back some memories. 😉 That’s actually a real store chain. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648/40 "2012-01-06T22:25:47Z")
I normally just say 7-11, because that’s the one we went to when I was a kid. During the last few years, however, I find myself more often calling it a Kwik-E-Mart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-mart-7-11-convenience-store-gas-station-what-do-you-call-those-places-you-buy-bread-milk/608648.md?page=3)