Today is 7/11 on the American calendar, which mean...  ...merican calendar, which means your local 7-Eleven store is celebrating by giving away free Slurpies from...  ...to learn some things about the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores . This was the business that invented what we call...  ...s was the busines...

The title of the post may be confusing, because th...  ...e title of the post may be confusing, because the store is not necessarily on a corner. What they’r...  ...n a corner. What they’re talking about is a convenience store , or the small shop that sells a variety of things...  ...ings, often evol...

Every month on the 11th, mental_floss runs a marat...  ...at could be more appropriate than facts about the convenience store known as 7-Eleven? The business started in 1927,...  ...an selling eggs, milk, and bread from a makeshift storefront in one of the company’s icehouses. These ba...  ...Southland pro...