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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on July 03, 2007, 12:46:00 am
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7-Elevens turn into 'Simpsons' Kwik-E-Marts (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/02/7.eleven.kwik.e.mart.ap/index.html)
DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.
A Dallas, Texas, 7-Eleven has temporarily become a Kwik-E-Mart as a tie-in to "The Simpsons Movie."
Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.
It's all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of "The Simpsons Movie," the big-screen debut for the long-running television cartoon, which loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks and is run by a man with a thick Indian accent.
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The U.S. locations where a 7-Eleven store was transformed into a "Simpsons" Kwik-E-Mart are New York City; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Burbank, California; Los Angeles, California; Henderson, Nevada; Orlando, Florida; Mountain View, California; Seattle, Washington; and Bladensburg, Maryland.
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i was actually talking about this last night with some friends and we were wondering when it was going to happpen. i may need to track this down over the weekend.
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bladensburg is inside the beltway so it's basically in the the district :) the 7-11 in question is on Kenilworth (201) just north of 450.
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I don't think that's a 7-11 I'll be visiting.
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Gotta wonder why they chose that location considering how rundown and industrial it is. Maybe the manager's a fan and begged liked Homer.
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here's some good photos from someone's flickr who visited the store yesterday.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnymetro/sets/72157600593198763/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnymetro/sets/72157600593198763/)
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I'm going there on Tuesday. What a cool idea!
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Gotta wonder why they chose that location considering how rundown and industrial it is. Maybe the manager's a fan and begged liked Homer.
according to WaPo it was picked because it's the top selling store in the mid-atlantic.
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Maybe there's many day workers yhere each morning to boost business?
Gotta wonder why they chose that location considering how rundown and industrial it is.
Originally posted by miss p...dirty pirate hooker:
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Gotta wonder why they chose that location considering how rundown and industrial it is. Maybe the manager's a fan and begged liked Homer.
according to WaPo it was picked because it's the top selling store in the mid-atlantic. [/b]
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I am SO going to visit on the Fourth. I want a squishy
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For other folks contemplating a trip to the Kwik-E-Mart, the street address is:
4199 Kenilworth Avenue
Bladensburg, MD 20710
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<img src="http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g16/beetsnotbeats/Kwik-E-Martlocation.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Man. Fuck Bladensburg.
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Originally posted by RustyOrgan:
Man. Fuck Bladensburg.
excellent observation. i can't believe we hadn't thought of that earlier.
well done.