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2 unusual facts about convenience store


Convenience store

Stores sell fast food like coffee, hot-dogs and nachos, cellphone refills between MXN$20 and MX$500, mainly Telcel and Movistar, newspapers, magazines, and some of their sells Panini products and other novelties.

Another large chain is Quickie Mart (whose name predates the fictitious "Kwik-E-Mart" featured on The Simpsons).


Auke Bay, Alaska

Auke Bay is an unincorporated community located in the city and borough of Juneau, Alaska that contains Auke Bay Harbor, Auke Lake, the University of Alaska Southeast, a former branch office of NOAA, an elementary school, a church, a post office, a bar, a coffee shop, a waffle house, a thrift shop, a Thai restaurant, and one convenience store.

Lyons Maid

The Lyons Maid brand logo, sometimes known as the 'Good Time Sign' but more generally referred to in house as the 'Dancing Children' was initially developed by advertising agency Young & Rubicam to identify the brand in CTN' s (corner sweet shops) and later on packaging and on ice cream vans but was eventually phased in across the whole product range where it continued to be used on branding and shop signage until Lyons Maid was sold to Nestlé in 1992.

Minami-Ibaraki Station

The shopping area around the stations include a few convenience stores, a Seattle's Best Coffee store, a couple of supermarkets and a post office.

Nasi goreng

Today the modern convenience stores such as 7-Eleven and Lawson operated in Indonesia also offering prepackage frozen microwave-heated nasi goreng take away.

Niederweningen railway station

The station has a modern station building, which also incorporates a convenience store that is part of the Migrolino chain owned the Migros company.

PDQ Food Stores

PDQ Food Stores is a chain of convenience stores located in the areas of Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; plus one store near Homewood, California.

Scott Safran

He practiced throughout 1981 and 1982, eventually being able to carry a single game for nearly twenty hours at his local 7-Eleven convenience store.

Southwood, Calgary

The community has three gasoline filling stations (with attached convenience stores), a Tim Hortons, Humpty's restaurant, several fast food outlets, two liquor stores, a Bentley's Pub, a branch of the Bank of Montreal, two dental offices, a Box brand grocery store, Planet Organic Market, Fabricland (Fabric and sewing supplies), Southwood Automotive car repair, a car wash and a dog wash.

Tunica Resorts, Mississippi

Businesses other than the casinos include a small number of motels, convenience stores and fast food restaurants, along with an outlet-style shopping center and the community's oldest business, the Hollywood Cafe — a blues club immortalized in the popular song "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn in 1991.


see also

A+

A-Plus, an American convenience store chain owned & operated by Sunoco

Burmah Oil

Many of the service station sites were acquired by independent retailer United Petroleum and convenience store giant 7-Eleven.

Certified Gangstas

The video also features a parody of the opening scene of the 1993 film Menace II Society where O-Dog is confronted by the Asian owners of the convenience store.

CP ALL

CP ALL Public Company Limited, was established in 1988 by the Charoen Pokphand Group to operate the convenience store business in Thailand under the 7-Eleven trademark, The Company was granted a license to use the trademark from 7-Eleven, Inc., USA.

Hudson, New Hampshire

The structure still remains, but it was remodeled and reopened as a 7-Eleven convenience store.

Jester Center

The center also contains an all-you-care-to-eat cafeteria known colloquially as "J2" (signifying Jester 2nd floor), a Wendy's, an a la carte dining center known as "Jester City Limits" (an allusion to Austin City Limits), a convenience store named "Jester City Market", Jest A' Pizza, 40 Acres Bakery, a smoothie shop named "Freshens", and the Jesta' Texas Gift Shop, selling UT apparel.

Munster, Ontario

Munster has a convenience store, a restaurant, and is the site of Saunders Farm, which has outdoor mazes and a Halloween theme park.

Nantucket Nectars

After graduation they headed to Nantucket where they started Allserve, a floating convenience store servicing boats in Nantucket Harbor, delivering everything from newspapers to laundry.

Nunda, New York

The town also has two golf courses, Woodlynn Hills and Triple Creek, the Bell Memorial Library, Dollar General, Shur Fine, a 7-Eleven convenience store and gas station, and the Kiwanis Club fields and building.

Price Chopper Supermarkets

In 2002, Price Chopper exited the convenience store business by leasing out its remaining convenience locations to Petroleum Marketing, a Getty operator.

Rick Brewer

Brewer is married with two children and operates a convenience store in Boiestown.

Rideau River Residence Association

RRRA operates a business (Abstentions convenience store), sells Greyhound tickets, manages the Parliament Hill Program, hosts a wide variety of entertainment and educational events, runs a free bikeshare program for students, staff, an faculty; and runs the RRRA office.

Scotmid

Morning Noon & Night was a Scottish convenience store chain set up in Dundee in 1991, by retailing executive Eddie Thompson (who became chairman of Dundee United F.C. in 2002.)

Shot in the Heart

Shot in the Heart is a memoir written by Mikal Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional family, and his brother Gary Gilmore's eventual execution by firing squad in 1977 for a convenience store murder he committed in Provo, Utah.

Side grip

The side grip was highly popularized with the 1993 American hood film, Menace II Society, where this technique is shown in the film's opening scene during the armed robbery of a Los Angeles, California convenience store.

Stocksfield

Amenities in Stocksfield include two post offices, an Esso petrol station, a Spar self-service store, a newsagent, two hairdressers, a butcher, a first school, a convenience store, a doctor's surgery and a vetinary surgery.

The Mist

An episode in the kids show Fanboy and Chum Chum, is about four people trapped in a convenience store surrounded by a thick fog, fearing that a monster is outside.

Thorngumbald

The village shopping centre has five shops: a small Boots chemist, a newsagents, family butcher, fish and chip shop and a Spar Convenience store.

Tim Greening

In 2005, as a food writer, Greening reported on how to make a meal from the Circle K convenience store.

Whitmore Reans

At the junction of the New Hampton Roads with Hunter and Clifford streets are several more shops, including the Sugar & Spice Asian catering store, the WV6 Internet Cafe, Burns + Dudgon Ltd electricians, The Fish Inn fish and chip shop, Mittu Jewellers, Jhoots Pharmacy, K. Ram & Sons convenience store, P.H. Services (appliance repairs etc.) and a branch of the charity Samaritans.