7-Elevens don’t go out of business, do they?
Apparently, they do. After 50-some years the 7-Eleven at Woodbrook shuttered their doors. No more $4 a quart milk, no more $3 candy bars, no more quick trips for a six-pack of beer or a newspaper, and no more hot dogs that have been spinning on the wheels for 10 or 12 hours.
My family practically grew up with this 7-Eleven. The kids begged for candy and Slurpee money, and I must have stopped in there hundreds of times on my way home. The place was always busy. I never went in there without at least one other customer inside and usually there was a deep line at check-out.
What happened?
Rumor has it – and this is a rumor – that the monthly rent was increased to $17,000. That’s a lot of bucks for about 2,000 square feet of space. Maybe that was the reason or maybe 7-Eleven is now going strictly to the full-service stores with gasoline and food.
I only know that hundreds of workers and passers-by will now be disappointed and inconvenienced.
Don’t know where they’ll go now, or me either, for that matter.
I can’t believe our 7-Eleven went out of business.
