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Big Gulp: 7-Eleven Will Open 44 New Area Stores, 350 To Come!
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John Del Signore
Published Jul 15, 2009
Modified Jul 15, 2009
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Yay, New York's getting more generic convenience stores like the rest of mini-mall America! Because the city has more retail vacancies and rents are down, the 7-Eleven chain is capitalizing on the changing market to aggressively expand in the metropolitan area, which had 431 stores at the end of 2008. Executives at the company, which was founded in Dallas in 1927 but is now a subsidiary of the Japan-based Seven & i Holdings Company, plan to open at least 44 more 7-Elevens around the area this year, more than twice the number that opened last year. And they promise 350 more to come in the next five to seven years! An article in the Times offers an interesting look at 7-Eleven’s business conversion program, in which the owner of an existing convenience store gets an average of $280,000 to convert his or her space into a 7-Eleven. Holy smokes, we'd open a 7-Eleven in our apartment for half that...but first we need to get rid of the Starbucks location that's still operating out of our kitchen.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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