7-Eleven rallies customers against card fees

Riding a wave of public outrage over credit card practices, 7-Eleven Inc. wants to show merchants are victims of the industry too.

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Slurpee is getting company from 7-Eleven products

Spurred by a tough economy that has more consumers searching for store-brand bargains, 7-Eleven Inc. is launching a new line of private label snack foods and treats.

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Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart? 7-Eleven Does

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.

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7-Eleven Pulls Drink Named Cocaine

Convenience-store operator 7-Eleven Inc. is telling franchises to pull a high-caffeine drink from its shelves because of the product's name: Cocaine.

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7-Eleven Drops Citgo As Gas Supplier

7-Eleven Inc. dropped Venezuela-owned Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more than 20 years as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store operator to launch its own brand of fuel.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities announced what they believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted on Monday in a scheme in which more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen.

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Why Nobody Robs a 7-Eleven in Israel

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- An 18-year-old woman burned to death Tuesday after a chain-reaction crash caused a pickup truck to run into a gas pump at a convenience store in Colorado Springs, triggering an explosion and fire that engulfed her and her minivan.

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What does this mean for 7-eleven and other similar campaigns? Stop what you're doing and think about your user's experience. You will be better off!

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Colorado Springs police are on the lookout for a man who attempted to rob two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday with a Klingon bat'leth sword.

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Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword. Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon type sword, called a "Batleth."

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A man used a cup of hot chocolate as a weapon by tossing it on the clerk at a 7-Eleven, and grabbed cash from the register.

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This is also where Joe Six-Pack does a lot of his shopping. FiveThirtyEight.com, the polling site, is currently predicting a 51.2% to 47.2% popular-vote victory for Barack Obama over John McCain.

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John Opperman-Green robbed a 7-Eleven on Orange Blossom Trail. When he left the store, he tried to get a ride with some men he didn't know. They robbed him of the money he had stolen and that's when he called police.

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A man walked into a 7-Eleven store in Monrovia just after midnight Wednesday and demanded money. Investigators said that when the clerk refused, the man became so agitated that he started grabbing items off the counter.

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A nearly half-mile line of cars snaked through side streets at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Longwood for an event offering free gas to the first 100 vehicles.

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The case of a chilli dog on display at a local convenience store prompted an outraged woman to take action.

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Investigators said the men fired shots during several early-morning robberies at 7-Eleven stores in Oakridge, on International Drive and on Kirkman Road and Conroy Road in MetroWest.

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7-Eleven has embraced its inner Kwik-E-Mart as a way to advertise the "Simpsons" movie.

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7-Eleven turned 12 stores into Simpsons-themed Kwik-E-Marts last weekend to promote the upcoming movie. Take a trip to the Chicago store in this in-depth story.

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Family Outraged After Toddler Wanders From Day Care

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According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 7-Eleven is in talks with the producers of The Simpsons Movie to convert eleven of the company's stores into Kwik-E-Marts in a promotional stunt.

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It appears as though the world's largest convenience store will get Simpsonized, though 7-Eleven Inc. said the deal isn't done yet.

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The company acted after getting complaints from parents of teens, who are a big part of the drink's target audience.

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Caracas, Venezuela, September 28, 2006 —Felix Rodriguez, the CEO of Citgo, the Venezuelan-owned gasoline producer and distributor in the U.S., clarified yesterday that it was Citgo that had let expire its contract with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain and not the other way  …

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A spokeswoman for Dallas-based 7-Eleven said its 20-year contract with Citgo Petroleum Corp. ends next week. About 2,100 of 7-Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores sell gasoline.

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In a contest coming to 711, the rules state:

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Looks like Apple's iPod line-up is on sale at select 711's in Japan. An image is provided.

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