7-Eleven - Switching Industries
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Most of us have had the 7-Eleven experience, there's nothing quite like it. But when they started over 90 years ago, everything was much different. This video takes a look at how they started and how they've transformed into the business we all know today.
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Other than groceries, you can pay tax, traffic tickets, facility fees, send or receive courier parcels, get railway or entertainment tickets, print documents from your devices, buy insurances ... It is an integral part of life here in Taiwan.
Traffic Tickets...wow...Just imagine not having to goto fucking court...
@@LoveKeepsGiving court for a trafic ticket?
Here you just get a letter in the mail and you do a banktransfer. It's 1 minute.
Gotta agree with Baron, where I am you only have to go to court to dispute the ticket, not if you want to pay it.
@@skullcrushers1000
In Utah not only do you have to go to court, you have to go to the court building in the city it was issued in on a specified court date. Even if you just want to pay the damn thing. Dont get tickets in Utah. 😫
Get freshly made coffee or bubble tea...clean sitting area for you to chill with your friends... snacks from all around the world.... it’s crazy there. Buzzfeed have a video about it you can check it out.
Well you know, in the rest of the world 7-11 is November 7, so for me you picked the right date
Only America matters so no you all are incorrect. Remember there are only 2 real nations in the world: America and potential America.
@@ethanjohnson2849 inbred
@@MarksTournaments r/whoosh
@@mattjw16 r/stoplinkingtosubbreddits
Eli English r/itswooooshwith4os
In Japan, the quality of the food at 7/11 is great and they have the best coffee.
We relied heavily on the konbini in Japan during our visit, as they have free ATMs and food we westerners recognized as we eased into their food.
In Canada we still have a crappy 7- 11 food but the coffee is pretty good
In Asia is really great like in Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore.
@Stellvia Hoenheim :-P
They have to compete with the other high quality convenience stores in Japan. Lawson and Family Mart are their main competitors
lmao, my grandparents still call the refrigerator an "icebox"😂
Ok boomers
Zack Stines so do i
Desecration how is photoshopped a colloquial term exactly?
I've called it that too, mostly just cuz I heard my great grandma call it that and it stuck
@@Brydude87 I think the generation that called a refrigerator an "icebox" would be the greatest generation. My grandmother was from that generation and I remember her saying that. My parents are boomers so i hear them say "refrigerator"
I'm from Thailand and you cannot walk down the street without running into a 7/eleven. On the main road by my house there are TWO 7/eleven within a 8 min walk of eachother. And the food there is really good! People there treat it like a grocery store. Since most people only buy produce from fresh markets, and not grocery stores, they use 7/eleven for everyother need. It is a little haven during trips, good quality food, and cheap prices for everything. The standards there for 7/eleven is surprisingly high, it's not at all like the ones in America.
I don't think I've ever even seen a 7/11 in real life
South Korea has a similar convenience store culture. You can have photos printed in 7-11s here, pick up your mail, etc.
The best bar in Thailand is 7/11
Can confirm, went there a few months ago and even in the bumpkin town of Ranot (a town no small you could walk from one end to the other in about 20-30 minutes) there were at least 2 7/11s (probably more)
In Bangkok there was a 7/11 on just about every street corner
In the town I live near in Illinois, there's a 7-Eleven a block away from another 7-Eleven. One also sells gasoline.
It actually is 7-11 in most countries, since they use the day/month/year way of reading dates
Well that makes sense.
yeah but this isn't most countries. this is one country.
Yep. I used to think the Twin Towers were destroyed on November 9th, until one of my teachers who was an immigrant from the US explained that it was on September 11th. What a stupid system. We use Day Month Year for a reason, there's a clear progression!
@@liranpiade4499 month/day/year has a genuine use in documentation to ensure that the month is listed before individual dates
odd that it became standard for other uses in the us
@@GlobstersMessenger And yet the most useful way to sort dates for document organization is year, month, day--computers order it automatically in lists not specifically programmed to handle dates.
It's 7/11/2018 in europe/uk so there you go
Mexico too!
*basically everywhere except the US.
@@HedgehogStudios1 no its nov 7 here too
You guys are wrong tho
It's 11/7/18
#AmericaFirst
They hate us cuz dey ain't us
Dash Tesla I find it funny that US wants to be SPECIAL at every chance they get.
How the hell is the map gonna say there aren’t any 7-11’s in Oklahoma they are everywhere here
The 7 elevens in Oklahoma are a different company.
@@jimjones3516
Maybe that's the case for Georgia too? Cause I KNOW we had them there when I grew up.
They are literally all over the place here in OKC.
Visit Tulsa twice a year...never seen a 7-11 there. Just qt Kum and go and the green dino lol
That's also why they were called icys instead of slurpees until very recently as well.
7 Eleven, please come to Best Korea
China numba juan
please come to brasil
Open the dmz bruh
Kim Jong-un burnin out my fuse up here alone
Kim Jong-un
"Oh Thank Heaven for Seven Eleven" .....
Godless don't qualify for a franchise.
They used to operate in the UK too, had a massive one down the road from me, but they pulled out on the late '80s. No idea why.
Welp, seems legit to me.
And I was the mastermind behind this video. Bwahahahahaha
@Larry Bundy Jr nice to see you here mate XD been a fan science Guru Larry days,
might have something to do with that bankruptcy that took place in 1990.
I swear. I see Larry EVERYWHERE on UA-cam.
@@Kresh42 thats cool he have time to do his videos work and watch youtube as any mortal XD
In most of the world, today is 7-11, so you did OK after all.
Is the us the only country that uses month day format?
@@mpad4497 well, what i've noticed in the US is when something is trying to be fancy, it'll say it like this, The 7th of November, 2018.
for short formats like the one's in the corner of your computer screen, they will all be like this in the United States, 11/7/2018.
On My (" Canadian") Computer the Format in the corner of the Screen is ("2018-11-7") so in a way still 7-11 and as a sidenote I was just thinking about The "Back To The Future " Part III where Marty has a Gun and is using it in a Shooting Range at the Fair in Hill Valley and someone asked him where he learned to shoot a Gun Like that and he said ("7 Eleven").I found that so Amusing.
I'm Also Impressed and very informative as usual to get to understand the Long Backgrounf History of 7 Eleven So when I see it mentioned in BTTF Part III it has more Historical meaning than before.
He knows
7/11 has the best quality pizza for the price in my opinion.
Little Caesars has entered the chat.
Oh boy. Better come to NJ to find real pizza.
@@richzytko Is new jersey pizza still new york style pizza Just curious
Really? I actually really hate it for some reason.
@@willissudweeks1050 its gross thats why
When I went to Japan back in 2016, the tour guides told us the best ATM to use, as foreigners, were 7-11 ATMs. And they were 7-11 ATMs, not some other bank. So 7-11 is, apparently, also a bank in Japan. It's called "7 bank" from what I could find.
I was just in Japan a few weeks ago. Not only is 7-11 in Japan the best place to use the ATM for foreigners, but if you don't feel like eating out, the food they sell there is actually pretty good quality., and they'll heat it for you if it comes from the refrigerator.
When I landed in Japan, the first ATM i saw in the airport was for 7Bank. They seemed to be the most common ATM by far.
@@bbmikej which is why a Japanese company bought them
@@danonolan you can do that here too. Lol
Terry Wilson the fuck is a shot of ice?
In my neighborhood in Los Angeles, you can stand on the corner at one 7 Eleven and see the signage for another 7 Eleven, catacorner away.
CataCorner...Such an LA thing to say...
Haha, I just made a similar comment about where I grew up in Colorado Springs.
Liked so it can get to 69 likes
Same in San Jose.
Catacorner; diagonally opposite . . . .new term unlocked 😊
As an international traveler, the 7 Elevens in Japan are a lifesaver. Every single one has an ATM that can draw internationally. With Japan being a cash carrying society, it was nice to be able to walk right down the street if I needed money. The onigiri was pretty good too for only being Y100
@Xx Yy I get charged a dollar
Onigiri is one of the best parts of Japan
hello mr international traveller, how are you MR Business man.
Damn I don't know if the price stayed the same but 100 yen for an onigiri is a bargain
You mean the jelly donuts?
My address is 711, so when I was a kid every time someone said 711 I thought they were talking about me
mine is 712 :(
@@Jun.Suzuki do you guys live next door 😭
my friend had 911
There was a robbery at 711
"Oh no!"
There is a slurpee machine and donuts at 711
"YES"
For most of the world, 7-11 means 7th November. So, you're doing it right.
TheFourthWinchester I was thinking the same lmfao
yeah, not 100% sure why it's the other way around in the U.S., but I believe it's a carryover of how it's often when speaking, you say the month then the day first instead of day then month.
Exactly
@@cpufreak101 in america sure, but i'd say today is the 9th of november, not november the 9th. probably to do with the fact that because england is a small country, the day is more important than the month, especially in olden times.
@@dannypeck96 I guess that's true, yeah
I was really impressed by the way 7-Eleven made its humble beginning as an ice store. By the way, many branches of 7-Eleven in our country, Philippines, even have charging ports for cellphones, as well as magazines, batteries, and stationery items. Despite the many problems and challenges, 7-Eleven continues to improve itself and provide more convenient customer services to many people around the world--in fact, even the security guard checks around the store to make sure the clients are okay, or answer the basic questions of customers about the items on display, or assist clients.
The 7-11s in Japan are the BEST!!
I was just about to say 7-11 is a huge deal in the land of the rising sun.
And convenience store business in general too.
The food is great there. Train cards, snacks, even gifts for loved ones in last minute emergencies.
I just wish we could get decent ones here at home
Because 7-11 is a Japanese company!
You touched on how the ones in Thailand offer completely different services briefly, but I think that’s a really important note. Every country identifies 7/11 with something different than the other. They brand their products to appeal to their regional target audience and sell different products at each location, such as the westernized slurped. I’ve read that in Japan it’s like, a one stop super store that has a ton of high quality varieties of snacks and food even including sushi. It’s a very smart business tactic and one of the reasons why they appeal to so many places around the globe.
I wish the Japanese one was what we had here in U.S: high quality varieties of snacks and food.
7/11 24/7
This comment belongs in heaven
You think you’re real clever huh
someone explain
LunarAtom their slogan is good heavens or SMTH, it’s pretty bad tbh didn’t really make sense to me
Nice
I saw a 7-11 for the first time when I went to New York a few months ago and I audibly said “Woah, 7-11!” I just hear about it so much and I wondered where they all are.
I live in Tennessee so when I travel up to New York every few years I like to get a slurpee from 7-11
I live in Australia and there is barely any 7-11s around, so for me it’s also special to see one!
The "n" in 7-Eleven is the *only* letter that's not capitalized.
Holy shit, I can't unsee it now
No, _No, _*_NO!!!_*
7-ELEVEn
Holy FUCKIn SHIT!
GREAT I
*I will never forget that in my life now.*
You tryna start some shit?
When I was a young pup in the 70s me and my friends would disobey our parents wishes, ride our bikes across a busy street, and go to 7-11 (barefoot, wearing out cutoff shorts, no shirt) and play the pinball machine that was right next to the sales counter. When the cashier got busy we'd try to steal a look at the porn mags(which 7-11 sold until the mid 80s). Then on our way home we'd circle around the gas station next door running over the line that rang a bell letting the gas station attendant that someone had pulled up. We'd just circle around running it over and over again ringing the bell until the attendant chased us off. Those were the days.
BTDT. Later on I would go there to use the tube tester to check my TV tubes and they sold replacement tubes.
So YOU'RE one of the reasons "No shirt, no shoes, no service" exist? Take a bow! When they make up a rule, that's when you know you've left your mark!
Oklahoma actually does have 7/11s, but only in the OKC metro-area and all 100+ are owned by the Brown family. Completely separate from corporate, and not in the franchise way. They have “icee-drinks,” not “slurpees.” They pay really well too, more than in Texas by four, five dollars an hour, but have very strict rules and a lot of religious stuff behind the scenes (Mr. Brown, a Catholic, wouldn’t sell condoms, and it wasn’t until after his passing a couple years ago when his son’s took over that they began to change that). I worked there back in the early-mid 2010’s, $15-ish and hour overnight. Worth digging into a bit.
Really high store standards too. Uniformly laid out and organised, clean, tight oversight from the home office, uniforms, regular training and drug testing, the works.
domentora wow 15 an hr in 2010? That was good
Wow $15/hr especially for 2010! That’s very good money.
domentora drug testing is evil
$15 an hour in OKC in 2010 is like making $25 an hour in the Northeast Corridor in 2019. Just wow
I once purchased a couple of snacks at 7-Eleven for $7.11. No lie. That'll never happen again.
Jolly Roger Dragon they should have made it free lol
Tyler Winchester LOL Agreed
I work at a 7-Eleven. I rang up a customer for $7.11 last month. It's rare, but not unheard of.
Jolly Roger Dragon Bullshit, the prices are great there
*Twilight Zone Theme*
Bring Your Own Cup Day is the day that all stores fear.
The one near me has a 1-gallon limit for some reason.
@@alaeriia01 cheap Indians, that don't like to give anything to anyone
I vaguely remember an argument between the 7-11 staff and some douchenozzle that quite blatantly screwed a handle onto a pretty large cooler. It was like twice the size of those holiday Heineken kegs.
One of the many reasons why I don't miss working for 7 Eleven. Free Slurpee day is worse. People would think that any size is free & when told that it had to be the small, they would pour entire Double Gulp size Slurpees into the drip tray (which doesn't have a drain) or just throw them out in the little garbages around the store or abandon them at the counter.
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real
Can you do a video on goodwill or another large charity retail chain? It's an interesting industry and very little info available on it generally.
I second this!
@Ultro yeah, Goodwill and Salvation army are the two most common. and while they can have smaller shops, some of them are quite large (not Walmart levels of massive, but it's definitely larger than a small ma and pop store) and have a large variety of items. I even managed to pick up a 24 port Ethernet switch and two functional routers at a goodwill for less than $10
@@cpufreak101 Yes, Goodwill is the best place to buy laptop bags.
You should do a video on Quiznos. Literally nobody likes Subway more than Quiznos, but Subway is everywhere and Quiznos is nowhere. Why? Because of really bad business practices. I saw a video about it on Mashed, but their channel sucks and you can make it rock. Be the toasty champion you were born to be.
I agree. Quiznos would make for a fascinating video.
Steven Warren he did one. Quiznos corporate fukd over the franchisees. The end.
@@qam2024 lmaooo really???🤔🤔🤔😅😅😅😂
@@qam2024 i just searched it on youtube and what the actual fuck quiznos
@@qam2024 I remember when those ads first ran. People at school were losing their shit over it.
I'm from Houston. My mother managed a few of their stores in the late 70's. Found it strange they sold their stores here and moved out. Like other cities...they were all over the place.
All of them here are being bought out by ugly cheap DK stores. I don't understand it.
They were bought out by Circle K in Louisiana.
@@bigezbarry I'd take Circle k over these cheap looking DK stores anyday. In Albuquerque they are being bought out everywhere too. I'm wondering why its happening nationwide. Do you have any info?
Ha! Very interesting. I was amazed when I went to Japan a year or so ago. 7-Elevens are EVERYWHERE. It was like Starbucks in downtown Seattle. A really interesting video could be made just with how much they vary their supply according to demand. For example, when we were in Tokyo, it is impossible to ignore how 99% of the people there wear the same outfit: black pants/skirt, white shirt/blouse, black tie. So every 7-Eleven there had a rack of white shirts packaged with black ties. Spill coffee on your shirt? Soy sauce on your tie? Run across the street and get a new one, S, M, or L. In the US, 7-Eleven could no more sell bags of white shirts with a black tie than it could sell bags of rocks. But in Japan, those racks were front and center.
it is the 7.11 today, WORLDWIDE, besides in the US, It's perfect.
john 119w nope. Not in Japan, where 7-11 reigns. This is because Japan (and likely other Asian countries) also writes their dates month-day; So today is 11月7日. We do have 7-11 day here too; it’s 7月11日. Can you guess when that is? ;P google 7-11の日 (7-11 day) and you’ll see it’s in July, not November.
@@utinam Isn't it just you ? Officially Japan follows ISO standard.
@@utinam its just you, Oficially most asian countries follow the DD/MM/YYYY format
@@user-mr6xf8xz2d I personally always preferred YYYYMMDD
Although, east asian countries excluding japan uses YYYY/MM/DD , the United States and some of it's colonies is the only country that uses only the MM/DD/YYYY format, while japan sometimes use MM/DD/YYYY , formally japan follows DD/MM/YYYY.
in australian notation, nov 7 is 7/11. the only problem is this video is released on aussie time 8/11.
Discoloured Buttflaps Australia doesn’t exist tho
Michael Walker neither does your originality
Same here with NZ time
@@memberwhen22 ok
@@memberwhen22 Insensitive prick...
I was thinking about a new series where you compare extreamley similar companies such as Walgreens and CVS, maybe call the series versus. Just an idea.
Edit: Hes actully done stuff like this just with sports not companies.
Coca cola vs pepsi rivalry would be cool
Home Depot vs Lowes
Pornhub vs Xhamster
VERY GOOD IDEA
McDonalds vs Burger King would be cool
You forgot about how one day, Mr Seven said to his partner, Hey, Mr. Eleven, we need to get more business so lets open early. But Mr. Eleven said no, we need to stay open late.......
I wanted more details about the birth of the Slurpee; Seems like you kind of just brushed through it. That would be like doing a video on McDonalds and neglecting the Big Mac.
When I was in 5th grade, I wrote to 7-Eleven as an assignment to write to a company to see if we get a response or incentive for writing to them, and I think my teacher stupidly sent it to a franchise store instead of to their HQ. Now I feel compelled to write a proper letter to corporate and see what happens this time for fun. Maybe I will get some vouchers for free Slurpies!
Sounds like your teacher was pretty dense. I’m quite sure had she sent the letter to HQ they would’ve sent a nice letter back with the companies history and so forth.
My third grade teacher sent a letter to Proctor & Gamble, to ask why their soap floats instead of sinks like everyone else’s. They replied by with the company history along with the story about the floating soap was an accident. The mixer was left on too long with a batch of soap and instead of throwing out that batch, they made bars of soap instead. They later found out that batch of soap floated due to the longer mixing added enough air to the mixture allowed it to float.
I lived in Taiwan almost 20 years ago and the amount of 7 Elevens was mind boggling! There was one on every corner, sometimes facing one another like Starbucks in the states. They were very stinky from selling local delicacies like pickled eggs. The craziest thing to me was that even the fanciest of Taiwanese, those with major money, would still happily eat a pickled egg from 7 Eleven. It's just so popular in their country that it's almost a part of their culture.
Same in Thailand
Everyyyy corner
7-Eleven was my first job ever and I'm proud of that. However, where I live, Loaf 'n' Jug is closer for convenience. Interesting to see how they started.
Do Circle K since they just exploded in size by taking over Valero!
Plus my girlfriend works for them as an auditor 😂.
circle K started as Little General in Florida
I have a love hate relation with retail auditors
this! +1
i've noticed not only has it engulfed all Valero's but it's also taking some Shell's, which is perfect for me.... i pump shell gas and get their 75cent polarpop drink.
Something strange is afoot at the Circle K...
@@eadlynjune only strange thing i've seen was them thinking about discontinuing their contract with CocaCola and their 40,000 dollar drink machine selector at every Circle K, but they decided to renew the contract and keep them in back in August of 2018.
I was so surprised and happy to see 7 11s when I was in Thailand . They seemed very much like the US stores and there was something comforting about being in familiar surroundings in that foreign land …I had a wonderful time there, the 7 11 was like a bonus.
7/11 is crazy in Taiwan you could step out of one 7/11 and see another 7/11 down the street. They also sell actual good food not just hot dogs you could pretty much live off of only stuff in 7/11 in Taiwan. The 7/11s in Taiwan are like 10 times better than the US
what I see in Japan is main branch competing with franchises, is it the same there?
I agree. My experience there is that they sell pretty good food and operate more like local delis/minimarts than just a convenience store
The 7-11 right next to my job did so well in business that they opened another just across the street. Japanese love 7-11.
chinito77 or family mart and Lawson(all owned by Japanese if I remember correctly)... japan is the land of convenience store lol
Lol in Thailand we have two 7-11 side-by-side which are count as a different branch.
seven eleven literally sounds perfect, imagine saying TWELVE EIGHT, TWENTY SEVENTEN
Because it rhymes. I'd argue Six Nine also sounds good, but people will make a meme out of that. Actually not a bad idea, if you're going for free marketing. Unfortunately, this comes with the risk of ruining the reputation of the brand once the hype subsides
611 is a thing
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 I mean, is there a mart literally called kum & go in the US? You guys have a bunch of very weird company names over there.
@@knecht6974 I don't live in the US so I've never heard of that name before, but damn. What were they thinking?
@@knecht6974 I’ve never heard of it, but I know the Tumblr post that joked about it that you probably misinterpreted as being a real place.
I'm in Kentucky, and I would have to drive three hours to another state to even get to a 7-11
you are full of shit dont take 3 hrs to hit ohio and you are surrounded by states full of them even 1 in your state
7-Eleven ditched my state. Used to have one around the corner; now have to go out of state to even get a Slurpee...
You're not missing much. they are pretty dull compared to the convenience stores of the era, like Rutters, Sheetz, and Wawa, Circle K, Getgo, etc. 7-11 are old school. Today's convenience stores have "fresh" fast food made to order on touch screens, gourmet coffee, a ton of specialty fountain drinks, beer and a fair amount of dining space and of course gas for your car. They are like rest stops more than convenience stores anymore. Most 7-11s are so small they don't even have public restrooms.
@@nunyabiznis817 finally I was waiting for someone to mention that. maybe for the better part of a decade most 7-Eleven didn't even let customers use their one bathroom they had in the back behind the mop buckets. Lol
Compared to Wawa and especially SheetZ what with their attached extended ceiling semi trailer gas pumps with a connected building awning in generally flamboyant colors and neon signs, make even the newest 7-Elevens dwarfed by comparison.
some relatively new locations appear larger on the outside but are still quite small in general floor space. and even some have a weird "backwards-out" Direction where you can't see it from the road but you have to actually pull up into a shopping center or to the pump to see it the front door. those kind of 7-Elevens are usually at the corner of a major intersection and the building is pushed all the way to the sidewalk facing inside.
I'm from Indonesia, and you have to actually fly to Singapore or Malaysia to go to 7 Eleven because 7 Eleven ceased operations here last year
When I visited Thailand years ago I never had an idea they had so many 7-11s. They looked much the same as the ones here in the U.S.
yeah we have so many 7-11s here we have slang for it
@@kornsuwin Ya, I was really suprised they were everywhere! I want to go visit again, i loved visisting your country.
Ahh, Japanese convenience stores. Truly the paradise of our times.
I lived in Taiwan for 5 years and 7-11 is LIFE there. Everything and anything you need. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee shop, meeting room, ice cream, liquor store, pay bills, order taxi, pay rent, atm, buy tickets for concerts, trains, movies, it provides shelter for people that need it... it’s the best
I think the whole story about how Japan got into 7-Eleven and eventually bought it out is much more interesting than this overview stuff.
verdatum agree, just came back from Japan and it quite amazing how 711 and convenient store works there.
I agree. I hope there is a follow up vid. I emigrated to Asia and 7-11 is everywhere! 😎
Cant forget the Big Gulp
But he did he didn’t even mention it I was so pissed
Even though the map shows no location in OK, there are actually several there. They are owned by the guy who helped originally found it and they have different items for sale. It’s pretty interesting, really.
Maybe because it's not owned by the same company and isn't a franchisee of their's either.
Apparently Quick Trip won out in Oklahoma?
yall ever find a channel thats completely different than the stuff you usually watch, but you end up watching one video and for some reason you're really invested in the content?
yeah thats this channel.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Oklahoma 7-Elevens. Started by the Browns who were family friends of the Thompsons who started The Southland Corp, and still owned by the same family today. They share the name and trademarks but are completely separate companies and have slight differences. (e.g. Icy's vs Slurpees)
I was about to say the Oklahoma has 7-11s
Dude I live in Oklahoma cool that someone knows I thought I was the only one
Oklahoma City? That is the only place I would suspect one to remain, due to an old agreement made between Quiktrip (Which dominates Oklahoma) and 7-11.
Nah, there are 7-11s dotted around Oklahoma. There's one in Talihina for example.
Rumor has it, the bar napkin agreement is locked up in a safe somewhere.
I worked for a convenience store chain in Anaheim in the mid 1970's. It was called U-Totem. Any relation to all this? I think CircleK bought them, because that's who's there now.
I remember going to the local UTotem in Galveston in the early '80's to play video games and they also switched to Circle K around '83.
@@gsxr7dsc I lived there in the 90s and there was a sketchy independent convenience store called Huggy Bear.
2:05 I'm more amazed by the fact that there are states without 7-11's. What do you do at 1am when you want a hotdog and a Coors Light!
You go to some random other convenience store/gas station - those are all over Iowa here despite 7-Eleven being basically unheard of.
who the hell gets beer and a hot dog at 1am are you patrik star? even the 1 time i had a beer that late it was pre baught not a trip out lol
We had them in Georgia and then suddenly in the mid '70's, they all vanished.
@@aprilkolwey4779 Iowa has the Kum & Go
In wisconsin, we go to kwik trip
I am from Dallas, and as a kid (12-13) I racked bottles, swept the floors, ect. In a 7-11. It was the first one with the "infamous" 7-11logo on building, and it provided car hop service!!! I did it For candy, slurpee's, and the privilege to sit and read magazines for free!!! I knew Jerry and Jeff Thompson, and had to stand and browse until they left. I later(18-22) worked for a store called "Handy Dandy", in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. It was the "first known conscience store", that had gas, oil, and groceries, booze, shotgun shells ect. in one small building. It was "not" a general store. It had the first sign that said "Last chance for liquor", and had pints, which were known as "bootlegs" The store is still standing, however it is now a used tire store...Brother James Kendall Moore OSB.
“Totem” is genius
Tote’em likely would be considered ”racist” today and canceled. 😒🙄
*tote'm
When you're subbed to Company Man and The Company Man and you realize they're two COMPLETELY different channels
Tell us more about how a the Japanese company acquired them during a... bankruptcy?!
And some other countries too
Japanese 7 Eleven food is way better then USA 7 Eleven
Did they file for Chapter 7 or Chapter Eleven bankruptcy? 😂
7-Eleven went Chapter 7 in 1990, because too much competition and a couple marketing pushes failed. Ownership bounced around between Japanese companies for a while. Since 2005, it has been owned by "Seven & I Holding Co," who owns 7-Eleven, the Japanese supermarket chain Iko-Yokado, Seven Bank (the banking arm of 7-Eleven), all of the Denny's restaurants in Japan, and a bunch of other stuff mostly in Japan. 7&I is the fifth largest retailer in the world.
My training materials when I was hired at 7-Eleven were on the same corporate training server as some Tim Hortons training materials, so maybe there's some corporate overlap there, too.
You can see top shareholders and other corporate info about Seven & I Holdings here: www.marketscreener.com/SEVEN-I-HOLDINGS-CO-L-6497950/company/
I would like an indepth look into 7 Elevens history! Thanks for all your hard work on these.
Never forget 7/11
7/11 was an inside job
7/11 was a part-time job
The fall of the Berlin Wall, right? No, that's two days after today...
911 Carrera was an inside job
@@ganaraminukshuk0 No. A terror attack in India
Chill Dude, here in Brazil dates are inverted, so today is 7/11 for me
Dates aren't inverted. The Americans use the calendar the wrong way. Never think less of yourself.
@@MrGregory777 Ah, so *Americans* should think less of themselves, got it, much better.
@@TheWanderingLPer well lets be honest, America is the weirdo when it comes to measurement systems.
@@Tuoppios1 We use both here. We use metric for many different things. Our tools are mainly metric because most products come from other countries. There are tons of examples. The only difference is we have to teach it our self outside of the education system.
MM/DD/YYYY < DD/MM/YYYY
I can't be the only one that thought it still opened at 7am and closed at 11pm
It was the original meaning.
For some reason I thought they open at 11 and closed at 7
I always thought the name was from them being open 11 hours a day 7 days a week. Shows what I know
My grandma still has a icebox in her basement when I saw it I thought it was a old looking wine fridge that my grandpa had
7-11 use to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma all over the place when I was younger... but we have a QuikTrip ( QT ) and 7-11 simply wasn't any competition. Circle K tried to buy most of those 7-11's and U-Tote-Em's and be a market competitor... but simply couldn't make it either. Git-N-Go was a nice competitor for QT, but due to internal struggles and ownership... they folded too. So we have a new Kummer in town. Kum-N-Go.... They seem to be doing okay... I buy my fuel from them because of convenience... but the employees still not but half the speed of a QT employee.
The patriarch of the family that started franchising 7-11 in Oklahoma used to work for and was mentored by the gentleman who started QuickTrip. When Mr. Brown became successful with his 7-11 chain, he and the QuikTrip guy had a gentlemen's agreement that they would stay out of each other's territory, which is why you won't see any QuikTrip stores in Oklahoma City and vice-versa.
It took an invasion of OnCue to make the current Brown family realize that their stores needed a major, major facelift and the stores are slowly becoming copies of OnCue stores. I could go on about the Oklahoma liquor law change of October 1, 2018, and how some liquor store owners got the royal shaft, but I'll leave it by mentioning that a lot of OKC 7-11 suddenly had room to remodel AND expand by 2018-10-01.
Even though it’s spelled with a k the name still sucks
www.tulsaworld.com/tulsaworldmagazine/is-a-gentlemen-s-agreement-the-reason-why-quiktrip-doesn/article_962babdc-73c5-5a44-8b15-cb03027f2b4b.html
sirluke7 qt is the best!!
7-11 had their day in Tulsa, everyone went there. I forgot about Git-N-Go. Never liked Circle K much. QT definitely king of the mountain now.
Who get really happy when company man post a video
They should change the name to "24 SEVEn" 😂😂😂
24 hours 7 days is what I think he means
stupid
Bitcoin: I always thought they should change to Seven 24, but I guess it doesn't matter. Maybe somewhere there are some that don't stay open 24 hrs.
Jerk Jerkington Thanks, I never knew that.
@@loditx7706 yeah I was surprised once when I came across a 7/11 that closed at midnight :/ but most are 24/7
I’m pregnant with my first found this channel all I can do is eat & binge watch
Switching industries - i thought you'd be announcing it was no longer a convenience store.
Dakota North the one’s in Canada are more like a takeout restaurant. Have a grill, sub station, coffee, bakery etc.
Surely if there are more 7-Eleven shops in Japan and Thailand, this IS the more appropriate date? Nobody does dates like the US.
I think South Sudan also does dates like the US 🍄
Japanese dates are year, month, day.
Okay, fair enough, I should have looked into that.
@@mpf1947 seconding year month day
Date in Japan is 2018年 7月 11日
Also, I find it funny the logo looks like 子 and they're huge in Japan
@Gary Oak it mostly doesn't. I guess you could argue it's technically 2018 - 7 there though. I just wanted to be complete
Wow. I always associated 7-11 strictly with gas. It's kind of amazing to me that fuel was kind of an afterthought in the growth of 7-11 as a company. While knew 7-11 was the progenitor to places like Buckys or Stripes.
When I visited Japan, all the 7-11’s were so convenient and had such good convenience store food. However, no slurpees at any of the
Shops I was in. It was definitely odd lol
*now* i want a *slurpee*
Mike ADHD go to Canada and several of there 7/11 stores have multiple flavors of SLURPIES ;
Talk about a flavor bonanza !!;
I’m talking slurpy heaven!!
👍
I'd like to learn more about 7-11 in the other countries - and specifically, how/why they got to be so different between countries. How did an *ice* store/convenience store end up giving out health screenings, or becoming a place where people can pay bills/taxes? (Honestly, there are a lot of global businesses where their differences between countries sound cool, and the history of how they ended up so different between countries fascinating.)
Here in the Philippines most people do not have bank accounts, they use various money stores to transfer money, and pay bills. 7-11 has bill payment machines. They look like ATMs but I have never seen an ATM at a 7-11. I shop online, use the 7-11 app to make my purchase, then take the app generated barcode to any 7-11 to pay cash. Also works for any utility bill. As an American it is not what I am used to, but it is quite convenient. 😎
Nice Mr.Company, very cool!
at least you tried
I wish this video was longer. Brought up so many topics to unpack.
*7 Eleven*
I thought it is:
7 - days a week
11 - hours a day.
I'm wrong. Lol
I heard that originally it was called that because it was open from 7am- 11pm. Then they obviously changed it to 24 hours. But a lots of the stuff I hear is wrong so who knows.
@@rrrglynn okay thank-you
@@rrrglynn yea even back in the 70's they were either 24 hr stores or open 7am - 11pm. Only reason why I knew what the name referred too.
rrrglynn, Company man said it. For me, it's close enough. Question though: whats its pricing compared to Walmart?
7am till 11pm?
There's over 900 7/11s in Hong kong and they open at 7am and most I know close at 11pm lol
hombero well that’s rude
hombero idiot
Where in Hong Kong do you live that the 7-11 doesn't operate 24/7? I've never seen a 7-11 in HK that closes for any reason other than for a typhoon.
They're open 24h in Mainland China. I'd know I've visited them like at 3 in the morning sometimes lol
@@ArchOfWinter those inside malls close when the mall closes (e.g. 10/11pm)
7-11 -- the best place to go and play Tron back in the day.
Arcade game?
@@adamknight5089 yeah
Why'd they stop having arcade games at their locations?
@@Smug_Scrub_88 Awesome. We have fk all arcades in Australia. When I do see them, they're overpriced. I play here and there but it's just a rip off, which is why it's not going to be a thing here. Great to see arcades are still a thing in US and Japan/China.
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 probably the same reason there aren't many arcades surviving. They just aren't very popular. I guess home console killed the arcade cab.
I didn't know what 7-Eleven was until I was ten. Where I'm from, we had a convenience chain called Wilson Farms. In 2011, 7-Eleven bought out Wilson Farms and rebranded the stores in my area. For YEARS afterwards, we all still called them Wilson Farms.
I never clicked on a video so fast...
lol you either work at 7-eleven or don't watch a lot of interesting content
not saying that in a mean way, i'm just jokin with ya
No offense, but that's such a cliche' thing to say on youtube now...
@@85wastedyears PLS STOP XD
@@masonlandolt9729 lol
I lived in Japan for 3 years, I can totally believe they have 20,000 locations over there.
So the 7-Eleven story was good. It did seem surprisingly short for a Company Man video.
You should consider doing a Company Man on Circle K convenience stores.
THAT is quite a story, especially considering for years only 7-Eleven was the bigger convenience store chain.
They began life not entirely dissimilarly to 7-Eleven, and Circle K actually bought out the UtoteM convenience store chain in the early 80s that was primarily big in California (I worked at a few different stores but started at the Utotem Market on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa California.
Also worked at the UtoteM on the corner of Baker Street and Fairview Drive in Costa Mesa, which is now a liquor store and NOT open 24 hours like Utotem/Circle K.)
Anyway. Circle K got bought out by a billionaire convenience store mogul Alain Bouchard, from Montreal Canada, even though the Circle K headquarters is still located in Phoenix, Arizona, about two hours south of Prescott, where I moved five and a half years ago.
Circle K started in El Paso Texas and grew from there.
Alain Bouchard, the founder of the Alimentation Couche-Tard chain of convenience stores started in Laval Quebec, is rebranding ALL the convenience store chains he's purchased as Circle Ks...except in Montreal.
The Montreal chain stores will continue to be known as Couche-Tard.
Alain Bouchard's Alimentation Couche-Tard owns 15,000 convenience stores all over America, Mexico, Canada, China, Europe, and Indonesia.
I would also love it if you'd do a Company Man about Stop'n'Go Markets convenience stores.
Whatever happened to them?
I feel pretty sure they were a small chain in the Inland Empire of California (we had one when I lived in Rialto and I thought they were other places, too).
One on Love's Wood Pit BBQ restaurants might be interesting, too.
Another restaurant chain that just fell off the map one day.
Maybe ones about the Claim Jumper, Mimi's Café, and the Ruby Tuesday restaurant chains.
Ruby Tuesdays have struggled for awhile to catch on.
They went bankrupt at least once or twice along the way, I think.
The demise of the Bobby McGee's restaurant chain that may have been exclusive to California might prove fascinating, especially considering their long-standing gimmick where the servers portrayed different famous characters.
One night your server might be Fred Flintstone, or Barney Rubble, one night it might be Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield or a 20's flapper or a movie gangster.
I remember the Bobby McGees in Brea California had a decent enough restaurant but they also had a full dance club/night club attached and that was a great place to go dancing and always seemed to be packed with people.
You did one on Woolworth's; it would be interesting to do one one on the demise of/whatever happened to White Front?
Oh. And the demise of/whatever happened to Winchell's Donuts?
I found one store in Anaheim, California, one day a few years ago, and the girl I talked to who was working the counter said they were supposedly getting ready to relaunch the brand and open up a whole bunch of new stores.
It was supposedly on the verge of a big comeback.
Back in the 70's, I think it was, Winchell's totally dominated the donut marketplace in California.
Winchell's was so large originally and had such a strong foothold that Dunkin' Donuts scouted locations around Southern California and decided that competition from Winchell's would be so intense they were not going to expand into California for a few more decades.
Now, Winchell's Donuts have all but died out.
Whatever happened to them?
(I know Dunkin Donuts has now finally expanded into California;
I figured because the perceived Winchell's Donuts threat had finally disappeared.)
There are so many possible ideas for Whatever Happened to videos.
These are just a few of mine. Thought I'd share.
I don't know if they're related but on the East Coast we have Circle D... On the property of what used to be a Citco which before that was a teeny Giant.
Also across the street from my high school which was known for rampant gang activity in the 80s there was a Getty Mart. We used to call it the _Ghetto_ Mart at least twice there were shootings and the school went on lockdown as we could hear gunfire across the street.
After the cleanup, and I suppose new ownership, it was renovated and rebranded and then robbed again renovated and rebranded again to a "Happy Shopper."
Are you... Company Man Jr?
Your description of "Bobby McGhee's" is the obvious inspiration for the restaurant portrayed in "Pulp Fiction" (I believe they called it Buddy Holly's). I had no idea they were portraying a real restaurant. I just figured it was the screenwriter's idea of a restaurant that could exist.
Wait really with circle k? I'm from Denmark and they just recently started expanding into our territory, taking over all of Statoil's gas stations as well as half of shell's stations.
toddvandell85 that’s a HUGE COMMENT.
Many oil companies got out of the retail garage / service stations starting in the 1970's and continuing even to today replacing the service building with a 7-Eleven. They also owned dairies in some parts of the USA until the 1990 bankruptcy. They influenced some dairy companies, especially in the NE USA to open up direct retail, extended hours convenience stores, later offering gasoline/diesel fueling stations. Quick Check in NJ, Turkey Hill in PA (became part of Kroger) are examples.
Compare quick trip locations to 7-11
And Kwik Trip.
I LOVE Quick Trip. Since they moved into my area in upstate south Carolina in 2008-2009. They have dominated the market.
QT's are pretty awesome, their model hasn't gone unnoticed tho. I've lived in a lot of places, down in FL right now Wawa's are taking over and they are very reminiscent of how QT's were/are. I see new Racetrack gas stations in areas that also are comparable, I think its more of an industry trend than a specific store trend (right now... its probably like comparing McDonalds and Burger King to a drive in back in the day).
@@Rachara True. The local, hometown C-store here in my area is called Spinx. Founded by Stewart Spinx some 6 decades ago. QT had offered to buy them out. Spinx declined to sell. Now, not only has QT forced Spinx to step up their "game". But, all QT's are located within a block of a Spinx. Sheetz, in the northeast are comparable to QT as well. Maybe even better in some ways. Both are still better than 7/11, though. In my opinion.
erik roberts they flooded the Greenville/Spartanburg upstate area quick too. Best stores around by far, but man did they come and take over quick.
I didn't realize 7-Eleven was such a trendsetter.
Holy crap, so much stuff happens in the DFW area
Xx Yy I been to Dallas once during a cross country trip (Tampa to Denver to LA) me and the wife did in my newly bought RV and Dallas everything is HUGE the streetlights are so high up and the gas stations all had oil jackpumps with casino style lighting all over with the roof of the gas stations (the ceiling above the pumps) were SO HIGH not even kidding everything really is bigger in Texas especially Dallas
Dallas sucks. Go to Fort Worth instead.
Dallas sucks and obviously has no port. But it is home to major companies. I love texas but hate Dallas. Traffic will kill you there.
moncorp1 Inc Nobody knows what Ft Worth is.
@@214dude2 Its literally Dallas. Dallas and Fort worth are basically one big city. Kinda like Kansas City, Missouri and KC, Ks. The huge cities that turned into one big city with no borders.
As a bicyclist in the 70s and 80s, I remember the fantastic Team 7-11 that won Tour de France and Giro d'Italia sporting the green, white and red jerseys with the brand logo.
Hell yeah new company man!
SoCloseToToast cool to see you here lol
Meanwhile in Mexico...
OXXO: 7-Eleven ? Hold my beer.
Luis Pérez faxxx 😂
No mames
They have 7 Elevens in Mexico too.
@@jmmdinamita Yep I know, but OXXO's outnumber them by a big amount.
@@jmmdinamita There are around 2,000 7-Eleven in Mexico, while there are over 17,000 Oxxo's, that's a pretty big difference
The date today is 7.11.18.
Living in Tokyo myself, there's at least three 7-11's within a 5 mile radius of my apartment. I sometimes get my dinner there too because they have maybe the 2nd best conbini food next to Family Mart here! The 3rd runner up is Lawson, which also used to be a really obscure convenience store in America that became a giant here in Japan.
*_Why did they get rid of Apu, though?_* (*_*)
Apu had nothing at all to do with 7 eleven.
Apu was part of a stupid cartoon , in a store not even remotely close in name.
I thought that was fake
@@__The_Real_V__ WOOOOOOOSH
FINALLY an answer to why "7-11" is the name
Your channel is awesome
So damn awesome
I got to a 7-11 as the manager was locking up.
"Your sign says "open 24 hours""
"Not in a row"
~Stephen Wright
NonPlayer Character ,😁
You know I've Begley remember the name totem on the stores as a kid in Phoenix Arizona. I remember passing the stores that said totem on them with the emblem of a totem. And some if I can recall actually had a totem out front. I was too young to remember but they had the colors of 7-Eleven which was green and red and orange. This video is bringing up some really big memories.
funny coincidence I'm watching this on July Eleventh, hadn't even realized the date until you mentioned it!
It's funny to learn it's a Texas company (my home state) yet I feel like I have rarely ever seen more than one in any town, if any. Dallas is about the only city I ever see lots of them. I'd say it's mainly Stripes, Valero, Shell, and everyone's favorite which you should totally do a video of Buc-ees. When people visit from out of state they treat it like it's friggn Disneyland or something. Truly the mecca of all gas stations. I see that beaver in my nightmares lol.
They used to be all over Texas, then for some reason they started vanishing in the 80s. Maybe their decline in Texas has something to do with the bankruptcies mentioned in the video, but I don't know.
Go to El pass Texas there like 80 of them there.
Just bring us to a Wallmart. For us foreigners that is just insane. How big one store can be and what you could buy over there.
When I worked for 7eleven in 2002, they sold more coffee than anyone else in the world.
My hubby's job used to be repairing all 7-11 equipment (all heating/cooking, slurpee machines, freezers).