What will become of the Ball Square White Hen Pantry?

[ron_newman]

7-Eleven buys New England Pantry

I don't think this is good news for our neighborhood convenience store and deli: "The company anticipates that stores operating under the White Hen Pantry brand will begin converting to stores to the 7-Eleven brand in 2010."

Comments

[ceo]

The article's headline is "New England White Hen Stores Join 7-eleven® Stores To Bring Consumers Added Convenience". I do not think that word means what you think it means.

[ron_newman]

Did I misinterpret something? The White Hen name and format is going away, as far as I can tell.

[gruene.livejournal.com]

It's called a press release. Less competition -> added convenience. This is absolutely horrible for consumers. I occasionally would shop at the White Hen. I will absolutely never shop at the 7-11.

[ron_newman]

But you ceo seem to be under the impression that I'm misunderstanding the press release. I do not think this is good news for Ball Square.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

I think ceo isn't questioning your understanding, but rather is sarcastically commenting on the press release's use of the word "convenience," as most customers (including yourself) recognize that this is not a good thing for them.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

I think ceo agrees with you, and is suggesting that "convenience" is not the word he'd choose to describe the new state of affairs.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

there's a reason some of my friends call those things "inconvenience stores"...

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[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Maybe we can get the wonderfully misnamed "Mitchell's Convenience" back...

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

It was open when it was convenient for Mitchell, you see.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Except neither of them was named Mitchell...

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

ceo's riffing on a quote from the movie "princess bride".

[ceo]

smacaski and yagagriswold are correct.

[tamalinn.livejournal.com]

I think ceo understood you. One of the characters in the Princess Bride keeps using the word "inconceivable" to describe nearly everything. Finally, another character says to him, "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means", basically referring to their very divergent ideas of what honestly is inconceivable.