Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.mm.com!news.mm.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:40:59 -0500 From: deejay@mm.com (Steve Sundberg) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: 7-Eleven Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:42:05 GMT Organization: noodleman.com Message-ID: <3f84f41c.15670292@news1.mm.com> References: <1_Mgb.703426$Ho3.154172@sccrnsc03> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.147.125.71 X-Trace: sv3-AtdxVT7AP/K3+SeJ65D4xLGAPjxeDAqIBCZ7dItE0YWDmDxzTTG0gM+dCoDwJGjuMNlqRaEaZbwn1Am!tiZAVQOqnXHuCf5KQ0895myDlaRflr7/AtfWz93NvmJ5jGEoHSIlYbtXAOFg0h8B0GVL X-Complaints-To: abuse@mm.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@mm.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:6260 On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:42:15 GMT, Travers Naran wrote: > >I thought it used to be owned by the mafia in the 1970s? Well, its >parent company, Southland Corporation. Never heard that one. Southland was, IIRC, headquartered in Texas ... hardly Mafia territory, and was one of the largest independent petroleum retailers in the US. Wherever 7-11's have gone hasn't always turned to gold. Southland "invaded" Minnesota in the 1980's, going up against our home-grown SuperAmerica chain of gas/convenience stores. By the end of the decade, 7-11 had to admit defeat and sold most all of their Minnesota properties to SA. It was a common occurance, for awhile, to then see two SA's on opposite corners. Eventually, SA sold off the extra properties. Two in Minneapolis were actually turned into restaurants (sans gasoline dispensers, of course).