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Tiangou wrote:
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Ask the joker that runs 7-Eleven why I couldn't buy a Slurpee in Japan or Thailand???? WTF? They might as well close the whole store down. I'm not really eating sugar these days, so the point might be moot, but hey. If you call yourself 7-Eleven, I expect to see a machine that dispenses Slurpees.
Heck with the Slurpee.
You can get a 5-course Michelin star meal, renew your drivers license, hire an accountant and pay your taxes, see a doctor, book a concert with a flight and limo ride, and grab any of a thousand different flavors of Kit-Kat in an Asian 7-11. They rule!
I didn't care about that at all. Good for them. 7-Eleven = Slurpee. They said that there were some stores there that had them. But I never found them. You can't even use your 7-Eleven app there which means you can't use your reward points. Sacrilege.
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Only the Qwik-E-Mart has Squishees, though.
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Buzz wrote:
IIRC, the last visit to a Circle K was late 1960's, possibly early/mid 1970; IOW, I vote w/ my patronage.... or lack thereof.
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When I was a kid and a young man, they would never put Circle K's and 7-Elevens in my neighborhood. In the inner city. That was only in the suburbs. But now, they're squeezing them into every block. That's why I love seeing the Arco AM/PM signs to this day. It feels like the friendly station. A true Oasis for a native South L.A. boy. 7-Eleven had the Super Big Gulp and AM/PM had the 44oz Super Tanker. After 4 hours of pickup basketball, you were ready for that bad boy.
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rz wrote:
[quote=Tiangou]
[quote=vision63]
Ask the joker that runs 7-Eleven why I couldn't buy a Slurpee in Japan or Thailand???? WTF? They might as well close the whole store down. I'm not really eating sugar these days, so the point might be moot, but hey. If you call yourself 7-Eleven, I expect to see a machine that dispenses Slurpees.
Heck with the Slurpee.
You can get a 5-course Michelin star meal, renew your drivers license, hire an accountant and pay your taxes, see a doctor, book a concert with a flight and limo ride, and grab any of a thousand different flavors of Kit-Kat in an Asian 7-11. They rule!
Damn straight. 7-11s in Japan have really good food. Not the crap they sell here.
I recently ate some of that crap, I'll have you know. USA USA USA...
