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And what's to become of the above mini-strip-mall? Rumors of a 7/11 are circulating 24/7. Anyone got the real skinny on this one? And has anyone else struggled with the concept of 24-hour 7/11s? Anyone else had trouble with the concept of 24-hour-old rotisserie hot dog?
Perhaps most mind-bending all is that the 7/11 corporation would see a need for a "convenience store" in a town with literally hundreds if not thousands of "convenience bodegas." It's a bit like that Papa Johns on Rogers. Are there really too few actual pizza places around here? I guess the difference is that with Papa Johns they DRIVE their pizza to you, rather than walking or biking. I recently biked past the PJ's delivery vehicle and it had been hammered - probably by an SUV, a vehicle originally built for off-roading and notoriously difficult to parallel park on NYC streets. Nope. Still not making sense to me. I'll have to sleep on it.
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It looks to me like it's built for multiple businesses.
RE:7/11, there was an item broadcast on WNYC last week [I think on Marketplace] to the effect that they plan to open large numbers of stores in Manhattan and the rest of NYC in the near future.
There was also an article in NY mag about 7/11's highly sophisicated system for managing inventory. They definitely plan on taking over NYC.
See the NY Times article on the E Village's response to a similar invasion. There is absolutely no reason for this chain to exist in NYC anywhere! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/nyregion/east-village-protests-its-new-and-familiar-neighbor.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
I walked by this mini-mall today. One of the shop spaces is going to be a liquor store, and as noted above, another one of them will be a 7-11. I think that leaves a couple of additional storefronts to be filled.
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