Tuesday, February 22, 2011

a convenience store


7-Eleven is where Luca drags me to buy his blue-brown slurpees or where Gio might grab a diet coke. They have 7-Elevens here. The signage is the same red, white and green stripes and inside you'll find the same style of shelving and aisles stocked with beverages and snacks, and the clerks even wear the standard issue burgundy uniform. But here, 7-Eleven has a certain cache. They serve really good coffee with a spuma worthy of an Italian espresso bar, and they sell snacks that include top quality tea eggs, fluffy light sponge cakes, lunch box meals, and even Taiwanese beef noodle soup (not the instant kind). You'll also find socks and underwear ( my dad bought himself a white undershirt) and the locals pay their utility bills here. You can find 7-Elevens throughout the city and people love living near 7-Eleven - it adds value to their neighbourhood.

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