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sickening, the amount of packaging involved.
ReplyDeleteJust fyi everyone -- each piece of garbage that overflowed onto the street is a 7/11 product.
ReplyDeleteWhy does a slice need individual packaging?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you show pictures of vomit on the sidewalk from people crawling the local watering holes while you're at it?
ReplyDeleteWhat's with this ridiculous demonization of 7 Eleven when Starbuck has killed the independent coffeeshop and cafe and Subway has killed the independent deli?
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So I guess people are shopping at 7/11 after all.
ReplyDeleteWow! I guess the community is underserved
ReplyDeleteNOTORIOUS LIBERATION,
ReplyDeleteYou mean like a plate and a paper bag?
To keep the 19 day old hot dogs from eating it.
ReplyDelete1:32 PM Not sure about the bag thing, I get my pizza on a plate and eat it. I don't get it gift wrapped and tote it around.
ReplyDeletePicture worth a thousand words...
ReplyDeleteSo I guess 7-11 DOES contribute to the neighborhood... EXACTLY what was thought to be their contribution - GARBAGE.
ReplyDeleteThe garbage can is gone though the trash remains on the ground. Knowing the 7-Eleven employees, they're hard at work dumping it in front of businesses with the boycott signs.
ReplyDeleteevery time i've gone by there there are at least 10 shoppers in the store.
ReplyDeleteGood job 7-11! Good job!
ReplyDeleteWho doesn't love 14 bottles of Coke for a dollar.
ReplyDeleteThe plastic exterior walls are already starting to separate from the building.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I'll be accused of being a 7-11 sympathizer named Ashley from a flyover state but really... Look most anywhere in the East Village and there is trash everywhere. It's disgusting. The city is fucking filthy and there's nothing charming abut it. Trash overflowing from the bins, all over the street and sidewalks. I just got back from vacation and am also blown-away but how much trash is on the streets here. You can go to other large cities in the U.S., Europe and Australia and they're relatively clean. I think the trash was here long before 7-11.
ReplyDelete@ Ashley from Flyover:
ReplyDeleteTHIS trash and its source are new and traceable to this shitty establishment. Throw-away packaging surrounding crappy "food" is intrinsic to 7-Eleven's business model. Plant yourself in a neighborhood, suck out as much money as you can, direct a big junk of it to your national and international HQs in Texas and Tokyo, and let your stores' neighbors deal with the residue. All the while dumping a big turd of "sameness of Anywhere USA" aesthetic into formerly interesting places. Not here. Boycott 7-Eleven and drive them out of the East Village!
I can't even begin to think what their pizza tastes like. Probably school pizza. Or worse.
ReplyDeleteTry it! You can get a whole one for a dollar. It comes in 8 tiny boxes.
ReplyDeleteI DID try it! I washed it down with 68 Slurpees for a dollar! What a bargain! The 29 rolls of TP for a dollar came in handy too!
ReplyDeleteThe smell from that place is gross too. I just don't understand why the people that like that kind of store won't move to the suburbs where rent is cheaper and they have plenty of chain stores to choose from. It's creepy and weird how much they want to foist their way of life on the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteWhy are people eating their "food" on the corner by the trash?
ReplyDeleteHey Kids!
ReplyDeleteThere's a new service center in the East Village called "Department of Sanitation" and they need to raise money to help keep the East Village clean.
In lieu of a Kickstarter campaign they set up their own website with links we can click on to point them to generous landlords who might make donations to DSNY.
Let's help them out, Kids!
Overflowing Public Litter Basket Service Request
Dirty Sidewalk Violation Service Request
Dirty Curbside Violation Service Request
ooh big gulps
ReplyDeleteThat's 'art' not garbage. See how the colors contrast with the profoundly beautiful mailbox? Someone needs to get a MOMA rep there right away!
ReplyDeleteAh Grieve, a bit of pandering to the audience here. No disagreement on the 7-11 scourge, but there many many worse garbage scenes on any East Village Sunday morning. Don't know why this isn't a big issue of concern for the hood.
ReplyDeleteIt IS a source of concern for the neighborhood, Anon. 9:00; it is not for the city, which is perfectly willing to receive the money from all the liquor licenses the SLA illegally grants, but not willing to expeditiously clean up the mountains of litter that accompany the drunken sots taking advantage of those licenses. Calls to 311 are ignored, or responded to days later, while we live with ALL the trash - human and inanimate - that overrun the EV on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit disappointed by how many shoppers are in there constantly. Some of us may be boycotting, but certainly there seems to be plenty of customers to keep 7-11 in this location. So.
ReplyDelete"Why don't you show pictures of vomit on the sidewalk..." Clearly, EV Heave was before your time, but new folks are always welcome. just not chains!
ReplyDelete@Anon 1:10 PM -- your question about why people don't like 7-Eleven made me wonder also, so I Googled and found this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.grubstreet.com/2013/07/7-eleven-lawsuit.html
Maybe some of the other folks here can provide additional explanation of why 7-Eleven is despised.
Seriously, I'm baffled as to why ANYONE would eat 7-11 pizza with all the great options nearby. Though the garbage removal problems in the East Village (all of downtown)go way beyond this.
ReplyDeleteThat's the trash? Oh! I thought that was the counter where you order the food!
ReplyDeleteya know, they got plenty of trash bins inside the store. who's fault is the litter?
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