[personal profile] ron_newman posting in [community profile] davis_square
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."

Date: 2009-12-17 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-12-17 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smacaski.livejournal.com
I think [livejournal.com profile] 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.

Date: 2009-12-17 04:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-12-17 04:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] perspicuity.livejournal.com
there's a reason some of my friends call those things "inconvenience stores"...

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Date: 2009-12-17 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] josephineave.livejournal.com
Maybe we can get the wonderfully misnamed "Mitchell's Convenience" back...

Date: 2009-12-17 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yagagriswold.livejournal.com
It was open when it was convenient for Mitchell, you see.

Date: 2009-12-17 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] josephineave.livejournal.com
Except neither of them was named Mitchell...

Date: 2009-12-17 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-leonardo.livejournal.com
ceo's riffing on a quote from the movie "princess bride".

Date: 2009-12-17 04:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ceo
[livejournal.com profile] smacaski and [livejournal.com profile] yagagriswold are correct.

Date: 2009-12-17 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamalinn.livejournal.com
I think [livejournal.com profile] 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.

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