tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post8738740711253388619..comments2024-03-28T20:50:27.862-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: [Updated] Reader report: The 7-Eleven on St. Mark's Place has closedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-36207924595815479502013-12-03T12:03:58.807-05:002013-12-03T12:03:58.807-05:00The owner of this franchise has two other location...The owner of this franchise has two other locations. If this location wasn't profitable, he's most likely focusing on the locations that are. The take away? 7-Elevens and their TGIFriday cohorts are not places people spend money at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-55217458097736425512013-12-03T10:23:06.095-05:002013-12-03T10:23:06.095-05:00this one was a dim one..small with not much mercha...this one was a dim one..small with not much merchandise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-38956381266832506422013-12-03T09:39:23.108-05:002013-12-03T09:39:23.108-05:00"Anonymous said...
Protesters didn't clos..."Anonymous said...<br />Protesters didn't close this business. Lack of interest in the product did."<br /><br />Public awareness does work. Anyone with a conscience will at least take note and perhaps think twice about patronizing a 7-11. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-77356197514813467182013-12-02T20:14:22.196-05:002013-12-02T20:14:22.196-05:00Protesters didn't close this business. Lack of...Protesters didn't close this business. Lack of interest in the product did. People don't move to nyc to buy crap food stuff from holes like 7 11.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-24730271195423631992013-12-02T18:55:19.845-05:002013-12-02T18:55:19.845-05:00Some guy lost his income and savings. Because of p...Some guy lost his income and savings. Because of protesters. Why not just let customers decide for themselves? That location was vacant for a year before 7-eleven<br /> I am sure Starbucks will move in to please everyone. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-181512336105035762013-12-02T15:52:56.976-05:002013-12-02T15:52:56.976-05:00My question is, how much of the artificially infla...My question is, how much of the artificially inflated rent that they can't collect now in the empty storefronts can they claim as a loss? nygrumpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-14639922006550946702013-12-02T14:07:55.609-05:002013-12-02T14:07:55.609-05:00Pro 7-11, pro- Santacon, pro-bars, pro-chains, pro...Pro 7-11, pro- Santacon, pro-bars, pro-chains, pro-bros, pro-sorority sistahs, pro-douches. Why did you ever move to NYC when you could've just stayed in Jersey, BV?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-60022294402963086232013-12-02T12:51:03.190-05:002013-12-02T12:51:03.190-05:00Anon @ 10:14 PM
Shrill? Well thanks for your atte...Anon @ 10:14 PM<br /><br />Shrill? Well thanks for your attempt to mansplain in your deep, reassuring baritone about how the world really works to us ladies and high-pitched hippies.<br /><br />Except that a person who franchises a 7-11 is a lot different than a person who buys a food cart, isn't s/he? <br /><br />A recent NJ class action suit brought by 7-11 franchise owners claims that they have to assume the same financial risks as the guy who buys the food cart (or any other small business), but the 7-11 corporation manages their stores so tightly that they’re more like employees. <br /><br />Then there's the matter of 7-11's plan to open 100 stores in the next 5 years in Manhattan. The 7-11 business plan is to convert independently owned bodegas into 7-11s or put them out of business.<br /><br />Re your last paragraph. Hong Kong has had years of rising commercial rents too. This year, for a lot of reasons (including over saturation by big retailers and that the high rents drove out independent stores), there are empty storefronts in prime locations all over Hong Kong. As a result rents have leveled off and some landlords are even cutting rents from 10-15%.Ken from Ken's Kitchennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-6989995389398769432013-12-02T12:48:22.660-05:002013-12-02T12:48:22.660-05:00. 7-11 is a formula that dominos real estate chang.... 7-11 is a formula that dominos real estate change. It helps the investors flip propreties. The chain pays high, the other buisnesses are charged a price that forces them out. Other pricey buisnesses that can only last long enough to jack up the apearance of value to the street come in. This jacks up the residential rents. Then the storefronts crash and burn. Thier are now more for rent signs in apartment windows then i have ever seen here. That and signs for shop jobs. Which means in a great recession that those buidings house fantasies. The rents too high and the shops pay too low for someone to pull the two together and make a life. That is because the market does not ask what is sustainable, what the 'market will bare' means really what abuse of a Monopoly of a finite market can be pull off. How far can one price gouge and not be regulated. The railroads had a lock down on supply and were regulated because of this kind of stuff. Monopoly. Finite markets. price fixing and gouging. 7-11 is just the excuse to get to that figure. To get to the higher pricing for all, and to expell and social engineer a culture with it.. The price of 7-11 justifes the outrageous gouges to come. It almost had to be a generic chain to not look like local corruption. A high paying local buisness in a space would not command the sense of a new law in real estate formulas. If it were just a mom n pops paying way too much they would be seen as fools and the owners as gougers. 7-11 allows the whole game to change. Thats why they suck. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-44976264932449721732013-12-02T11:03:57.618-05:002013-12-02T11:03:57.618-05:00Wish they would close the one on Grand Street. It ...Wish they would close the one on Grand Street. It just opened this past Spring. The 7-11 on East 28th Street price gouged during Hurricane Sandy last year. I say boycott all these useless trash stores. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-15645344615560147662013-12-02T09:54:13.846-05:002013-12-02T09:54:13.846-05:00In some places, empty commercial space is rented t...In some places, empty commercial space is rented to artists at a fraction of market/asking rent. Originally to keep out squatters, and yes part of master plan for gentricication, but space gets used on intermin terms by artists, or cultural businesses that need it.<br />It confirms the idea of community. If landlords are going to be rewarded in tax breaks for letting spaces sit there empty, they should give back in some way. the LMCC tried to inititate something like this years ago, and have currently a similiar exchange with office spaces, but which will however be coming to an end soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-89167421523857415322013-12-02T07:27:54.241-05:002013-12-02T07:27:54.241-05:00In my best non-shrill voice so you're faint he...In my best non-shrill voice so you're faint heart won't flutter... after Sandy most of the chain stores and franchises remained closed. 7-Eleven, Subway, Starbucks - companies with financial resources that could have provided things like generators so we could charge our phones. Who remained opened? Bodegas and other local businesses like Percy's Tavern who brought out a generator and power strips allowing a few hundred people to charge their phones. They didn't bail on us, they helped.THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-59807882218546668732013-12-01T22:14:15.868-05:002013-12-01T22:14:15.868-05:00Is it ever possible for you all to have a realisti...Is it ever possible for you all to have a realistic and non-shrill discussion? 7-11 is just a franchise cover for some poor folks who tried to open a business. It is no different than people who bought a food cart from the "man." They are trying to make a living, despite their hideous signs.<br /><br /> And, no, empty store fronts won't lead to cheaper rents any time soon. Even in prime NYU-ville there are multiple stores (i.e.,the hardware store and Fern Cliff on Third Ave) that have been empty for ages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-42111196233722911102013-12-01T21:16:58.096-05:002013-12-01T21:16:58.096-05:00annonymous at 2:33
7-11 didn't give away any f...annonymous at 2:33<br />7-11 didn't give away any food after sandy because their hot "food" never deteriorates.<br />blue glassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-51879342530035140962013-12-01T20:43:50.873-05:002013-12-01T20:43:50.873-05:00"Now everyone can go back to being overcharge..."Now everyone can go back to being overcharged by the bodegas and Korean delis who I doubt will lower their prices now that 7 Eleven is gone." <br /><br />You win First Prize for posting the dumbest statement ever. Congratulations. <br />Uncle Waltiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07611991976897184311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-17743485482534592092013-12-01T20:14:51.684-05:002013-12-01T20:14:51.684-05:00Ironic that the one with most potential traffic cl...Ironic that the one with most potential traffic closed. Bodes well for quick exit from Ave A! Also refutes some suggestion that 7-11 isn't so concerned about individual store profits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-23650418874663071802013-12-01T19:20:33.860-05:002013-12-01T19:20:33.860-05:00annonymous at 2:33
I've never left my keys at...annonymous at 2:33<br /><br />I've never left my keys at a bodega, but what I have seen bodegas do is serve the community in an emergency. In the blackout days after Hurricane Sandy, the bodegas opened and led people thru with flashlights to get food and water. They even gave away their perishables before they went to waste. The chains like 7-11 remained closed, likely because someone in the corporate office was afraid of a lawsuit if someone tripped. <br />davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-964008604247421442013-12-01T19:08:52.557-05:002013-12-01T19:08:52.557-05:00Between the $30k rent and minimal foot traffic, I ...Between the $30k rent and minimal foot traffic, I bet there's a line of franchisees lined up for the Avenue A location! They have their work cut out for them turning a profit selling fluorescent food-like products in a neighborhood with so many affordable places to grab a quick bite.Big Brothernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-14432507143176968322013-12-01T17:23:50.418-05:002013-12-01T17:23:50.418-05:00walked by ~4pm... it's nearly empty inside.
g...walked by ~4pm... it's nearly empty inside.<br /><br />good riddance. please dont forget to remove the signs on your way out.DrScientistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-39195866681553100832013-12-01T16:26:26.932-05:002013-12-01T16:26:26.932-05:00Now that all those businesses on that corner are g...Now that all those businesses on that corner are going and gone:<br /><br />BRING BACK ST. MARK'S MOVIES!<br /><br />http://evgrieve.com/2013/11/looking-again-at-st-marks-and-2nd-ave.html<br /><br />- East VillagerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-1508453968098174862013-12-01T16:03:27.564-05:002013-12-01T16:03:27.564-05:007-11 was a poor choice as even in the burbs most p...7-11 was a poor choice as even in the burbs most people regard 7-11 as a trashy store. <br /><br />While I would of course rather see a Mom and Pop business, should a more "upscale" chain convenient store come in I think it would make money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-10816418500955485102013-12-01T15:26:32.679-05:002013-12-01T15:26:32.679-05:00Shawn G. Eat your boloney sandwich. 7-11 doesn'...Shawn G. Eat your boloney sandwich. 7-11 doesn't wish to corporately own any location. It only is run by corporate until a franchisee signs on. If you look on the 7-11 website you can see that Avenue A is on the available franchise sites. Try to edu-macate yo self before frothing at the mouth with your anti-corporate lectures. Stuballnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-69059070984485497772013-12-01T15:12:55.157-05:002013-12-01T15:12:55.157-05:00Now there are no functioning businesses in that wh...Now there are no functioning businesses in that whole building. Used to be to be 4 or 5, so I wonder what's up with that? Crazy landlord?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513777635149262591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-56964326149159941452013-12-01T14:33:11.858-05:002013-12-01T14:33:11.858-05:00The number of people who claim to leave their keys...The number of people who claim to leave their keys with bodega workers is astounding! With all these keys, where do keep their merchandise?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-54268818706294099802013-12-01T14:04:09.460-05:002013-12-01T14:04:09.460-05:00but hey, you can leave your apt keys with the deli...but hey, you can leave your apt keys with the delis! and they say "hi" and know how to make your morning coffee! all very priceless commodities...<br /><br />actually i don't give a shit either way but the pile on and personal insults to "D" was not needed.<br /><br />now i can't wait for the new starbucks! or will we get another biscuit place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com