For anyone thinking that 7-Eleven wasn't actually closed for good here on St. Mark's Place at Second Avenue. Workers arrived early this morning to remove the 7-Eleven sign/awning ... the store closed this past weekend, as we first reported...
The store opened in April 2012... flashback to happier sign times!
Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGood News!!!!
ReplyDeleteThey were able to hang on for a year and a half. Wonder how long for one at 11th/A? -- that's a lot of store and probably a lot of rent.
ReplyDeleteJAS Mart!!! We miss u.
ReplyDeletethis is how business works in america...take notes people
ReplyDeleteIn the midst of the parochial cries of glee from the EVG readership, it's also important to remember that most 7-Elevens are franchises owned by immigrant families that have most likely sunk a large portion of their life savings into opening a store.
ReplyDelete7-Eleven's evil lies within the way it goads people into believing that their franchise system is bound to succeed, and their blatant will to flood the convenience store market in the city. But the failure of this business ultimately hurts the people who invested their money and effort into the store. The company doesn't care, and this doesn't hurt Corporate in any way.
BIG buh bye!
ReplyDelete7-Eleven is terrible for small business owners. Several franchisees are suing the parent company because they are micro-managing them to death.
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And the start-up costs are astronomical.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/7eleveninc/282052-0.html#
I'm not trying to troll and I am sincere in asking this; If a big corporate store can offer you the same products at a discount compared to a small business why wouldn't you go to the cheaper store? At the end of the day for me the consumer I'm going to buy stuff wherever it is cheaper.
ReplyDeleteWhy the obsession with business owners? If a small business has nine employees, the owner represents only 10%. Workers fare better in large companies, despite the exceptions.
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ReplyDeleteI disagree with your point. 7-11 Inc. does hurt when one of their franchises fail. Corporations are all about market share, pure numbers and pleasing stockholders. The moment a chain corporation starts its inevitable shrinkage that is the moment the company and its way of doing business begins to die. Expand then super nova gets them all eventually. Your concern for the "immigrant families" that get suckered into the 7-11 trap is not worthy but think about the immigrant family that was just forced out of their store because the landlord wants 3 times the rent which 7-11 is happy to pay. Meanwhile we get to live in corporate blandness with sducidal thoughts.
Anon 2:17 - Who said 7-11 is cheaper than the surrounding stores? Numerous reports on this site and elsewhere have shown that 7-11 is not actually cheaper - only cheaper sometimes on certain items. What big corporate stores have in their favor is that they're able to advertise what they have thereby giving the *impression* that what they have is actually cheaper. Also, what happens is over time corporate stores put smaller business that don't have deep-pocketed corporate backers out of business, and then jack up the prices. So enjoy saving 4 cents buying tickle paper today, and then enjoy paying out your ass to wipe your ass later.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 3:42, Your scenario assumes that if small businesses go under, then 7-Eleven will be the only store around, but that ignores other competitors as large as 7-Eleven. The pressure on prices, via competition, is always downward.
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ReplyDeleteYikes! Imagine that neighborhood lined with bland, soulless "competitors". Even Anon would not want to live there. This is not some turnpike where these chains are unseen unless you're just passing through. We are too dense here for that not to be a total nightmare of living. If your only concern is money, then no doubt that you are easily bought. I hope there's more to life than what's cheapest, and that's why I'm hanging on here.
What are these "cheaper things" we're buying at 7-11? Toilet paper? You can buy that at a supermarket for the same or less. Candy bars? Ditto. Fossilized hot dogs? Papaya King's dogs are a million times better and probably the same price, or less. (And there's a beautiful new location on St. Mark's.) Oh, and there's that repulsive-looking large pizza they sell for $5.55. If you don't want to buy (much better) pizza at one of the many, many local pizzerias downtown, then you need to leave this city immediately. You are not fit to be a real New Yorker.
ReplyDelete7-11 is a category killer, 4:13 PM. Their stated goal in Manhattan is to control market share by either eliminating or converting the existing competition. If 7-11 is "the only store around," what you're envisioning must be some some other corporate entity like Circle A coming into the city and conducting trench warfare against 7-11 like that between Duane Reade and CVS=.
ReplyDeleteOne big difference between the locally owned stores and the chains like 7-11 is that you can depend on the local stores whenever there is an emergency.
ReplyDeleteDuring Sandy, and every other blackout or blizzard, when the big chains shut down, the local bodegas and grocery stores and pizzerias stayed open.
After Sandy they gave away food that would have spoiled to poor residents, they brought in their own generators, stayed open all night, charged peoples cell phones, brought in ice from the boroughs, and were a lifeline while the chains stayed closed until the day after the power came back on.
During the big blackout several years ago our local pizzeria and grocery strore fed the whole neighborhood, all the big chains were closed.
And in normal times they extend credit to customers short on cash, or who have no credit card, sell loosies to people who can't afford to buy a whole pack, cook delicious rice and beans, Spanish, Indian and other local or ethnic foods, stock special items just for their regular customers, and store cell phones for kids on schooldays. All these intangible things become very tangible when you really need them and when they are the only ones who offer the kind of help real people need.
Good riddance 7-11, you will never be able to serve the local community the way that the people who have been here for decades have already proven they can.
7-Eleven sells food products, it's not actually food. Like Cheetos. Bodegas of course sell Cheetos too, but they offer a better variety of actual food. They're not controlled by the mothership so they can sell what they want, the food their customers want to by. Fruit, vegetables, fish, vegan/vegetarian food, etc. 7-Eleven is essentially stoner garbage.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean it's not cheaper? You can get an entire pizza for $5.99. Quality? Who cares? Cheap first, quality second, that's my motto.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter if 7-Eleven's stated goal is to control market share. That's every company's stated goal. It doesn't mean they'll achieve it.
ReplyDeleteAs far as being "soulless" -- this term is meaningless when it comes to retail. No one is looking for "soul" in a convenience store.
how true---and some bodegas do NOT offer credit btw and charge you through the nose for basic shit to cover their crazy rent.
ReplyDeleteand i'm sick to death about sandy, sandy, sandy references. i went into one deli back then and they charged me plenty so spare me. they got what they could and rightfully so as they lost loads of money. i had no problem with that as i chose to shop there.
and all you sanctimonious and swaggering posters, how about going after the new dairy queen now?
you show who has the right to own a business in the ev! where were you when the gap took over the movie theater on 8th street? damn!
it's CORPORATE OMG.
Yes what's with this incessant references to Sandy and how bodegas gave away their spoiling food..,,??!!! Come on I don't think that is the kill-shot argument you are still seeking. What saints they are for giving away some spoiling food. I didn't hear any stories how bodegas saved peoples lives providing nourishment with over-ripe bananas. It's not like it was Lebanon here. People weren't starving and they didn't have to air drop food from above. I am .. they stayed open to sell what they could. I am beginning to think the "Sandy" references are coming from bodega owners themselves. This is an obvious case of humblebragging. Good deed negated if it's self-promoting.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think rent is going for a place like that? 15000$? I can't believe they can't make 20k in a month.
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