You may have heard that twelve 7-11 stores around the world have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts for the month of July in order to promote the upcoming Simpsons Movie. Fortunately for me, the one in Denver is just a couple of blocks from where I work. I stopped in there yesterday after work to buy some Buzz Cola and take some pictures. I wasn’t the only one. The place was packed!
I’ve made a Flickr set of my photos from the “event”.
Latre.
9 responses so far ↓
1 InfK // Jul 4, 2007 at 3:15 pm
The funny part for us is, before the publicity for this hit we actually drove past one of these and thought “hey look, someone’s made a Kwik-E-Mart out of a former 7-11…haw haw” without really giving it a second thought.
Oh yeah, and does anyone else remember the chain of convenience stores from the 70s, probably just local or regional but it was before 7-11 bought out everyone and became universal - they were called Kwik Shops?
2 Paula // Jul 4, 2007 at 8:23 pm
That is ingenious and fun. Do they have Duff Beer?
3 Paula // Jul 4, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Oops, looks like JeFF already made the Duff joke on his globbe. Oh well.
4 Flasshe // Jul 4, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I think there was some legal problem with selling Duff Beer…
5 InfK // Jul 6, 2007 at 1:45 am
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070702/482/bcd26dbcd25c4d88b519caaeef51d5b4
6 yellojkt // Jul 7, 2007 at 3:44 am
You are so lucky. Thanks for the on the spot photo journalism.
7 DJSmallberries // Jul 9, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Out here in the sticks, there is actually a convenience store named (I kid you not) “Shop-A-Mint”. They don’t actually seem to sell mints. But they do sell booze. I can’t figure out whether the owners just don’t know how to spell “minute”, or if they just didn’t have enough letters for the sign.
8 Lisa // Jul 27, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I frequently stop at that one to get my morning coffee. What I thought was interesting is that while their gas prices are always a little higher than average, this morning it was 26 cents higher for mid-grade than the other 7-11 I pass on the way to work!
9 DanWV // Aug 26, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Where is Flasshe? The world wonders…