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7 Elevens Turned Into Kwik E Marts
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| bigjimslade002 |
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.
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.<-------(neat!)
It's all part of a campaign to hype next month's 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.
The monthlong promotion has been rumored a long time — it's hard to keep a secret known by so many suppliers and franchisees — but 7-Eleven managed to keep the locations of the stores quiet until early Sunday morning. That's when the exteriors of 11 U.S. stores and one in Canada were flocked in industrial foam and given new signs to replicate the animated look of Kwik-E-Marts.
The U.S. locations where a 7-Eleven store was transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart are New York City; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Burbank, Calif.; Los Angeles; Henderson, Nev.; Orlando, Fla.; Mountain View, Calif.; Seattle; and Bladensburg, Md.you can read the rest here:
http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt...d=ap-d8q3v57g0&
i think thats a neat idea.im going to drive to bladensburg on my break to check it out if i can.if anybody has one near them take some pictures! |
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| TweeK |
Seriously, if i was on the freeway and i saw one. I'd go "OH !" and then get off the freeway.
I'd clap n give myself a hand just as i go in. :toothless |
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| ASFSE |
| quote: | Originally posted by TweeK
I'd clap n give myself a handjob just as i go in. |
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| ballmouse |
| No pictures in that link. =/ |
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| bigjimslade002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by charon
pics ????? |
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| eRRaTiK |
| quote: | Originally posted by ASFSE
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LOL yeh I was gonna post that too.
| quote: | Originally posted by bigjimslade002
i think thats a neat idea.im going to drive to bladensburg on my break to check it out if i can.if anybody has one near them take some pictures! |
+1
i don't know... those pics posted above look dodgy for some reason. |
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| tubularbills |
that's ing amazing!!! awesome!
btw, movie comes out on july 27th i think... |
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| tubularbills |
that is ing sweet. |
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| kush paintings |
| Did the only hire Indians to man the cashiers? |
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