Talk:7-Eleven

I want sale some bakes items of indian

I want to export bakes item india to japan... And will you sale from your shops 49.98.117.202 (talk) 19:41, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Go approach 7-11 directly. Wikipedia does not facilitate sales. – robertsky (talk) 03:03, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Add a brands list

Can someone add a brands list on the side box thing similar to WarnerMedia and AMC Networks? it could have the stores 7-11 owns like Speedway and the original products they sell like Slurpee 2601:18C:601:C720:6935:3189:E27B:4FEF (talk) 23:40, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Double meaning of "7-Eleven" as the CSA

WP:OR, WP:SYNTH, WP:NOTFORUMish. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:51, 9 May 2026 (UTC) The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

The Etymology section clearly explains that the original store name "Tote'm" had a double meaning (customers toting their purchases, along with the Native theme of Totem Poles).

The article does not explain that there is likewise a double meaning to the name "7-Eleven". This name change happened in 1946, right on the heels of winning World War II. Thinking back to an earlier war in US history, there was sentiment at the time that The South Will Rise Again, and this feeling persisted well into the late 1900s. Headquartered in the Dallas area, Texas was the largest of the Confederate States of America from the US Civil War.

Founded as "Southland Ice Company", and later becoming "Southland Corporation", the name Southland can readily be understood as referring to the Southern States. The land which had seceded. The Confederate States of America were formed by:

7 States: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

After Lincoln took office on on March 4, 1861, and the war began in April, these 7 were joined by:

4 more States: Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

...for a total of ELEVEN States.

The standard story is that the name "7-Eleven" came from the store hours being open from 7am to 11pm. But this double meaning is that the SOUTHLAND was created by 7 States which became ELEVEN States, and was a mantra being synonymous with this sentiment that The South Will Rise Again.

The "original 7" Confederate states were commemmorated on the original CSA Flag, with a circle of 7 stars. After the next 4 states seceded, the number of stars on the CSA Flag was increased to 11 (used through Nov 1861). The situation in Missouri and Kentucky was complicated, with the CSA never gaining control over those states, but these two were eventually represented with two further stars on the final form of the CSA flag designs. Going further back to the American Revolution, the number of US states that were originally created were 13, and so that is a number that resonated with the CSA rebellion as well, going so far as to use the exact same star pattern which was used on the Betsy Ross flag.

But the number of states that were controlled by the CSA during the war was ELEVEN. And so 7-Eleven represents the original and eventual number of states under the control of the "Southland". With a suitable verifiable reference, this info about this double meaning can be added to the Etymology section. --Concord19 (talk) 02:34, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

For completeness...
The most obvious meaning of "7-Eleven" should be explicitly stated. And that is of dice and gambling. Full articles explain that, including Craps and Sloppy Dice. So the more complete title for this section would be "Triple meaning..." This article has been in existence since the first few years of Wikipedia's creation. I do not know why this name association with gambling has no mention in the article. Perhaps at some point over the past decades it had. And perhaps the CSA correlation has as well. At least within this Talk space, if never having been mentioned in the Etymologies section. --Concord19 (talk) 12:22, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Confusing scope

The article, and the lead especially, confusingly fails to distinguish whether it's supposed to be about the original American operations or the wider global chain, which is based in Japan. If they're going to be covered in the same article, the opening should be rewritten to define the subject as a global brand of American origin, and the content that pertains to its history and operations in the US should be contained within clearly labelled sections. --~2025-35186-77 (talk) 05:15, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Rename article to 7-11

It makes more sense, and on the top there could be redirects to July 11 and November 7. ~2026-24689-91 (talk) 23:44, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

The company is, in fact, named "7-Eleven", and thus that is where the page belongs. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:47, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Hostile takeover

The article states " Southland Corporation was threatened by a rumored corporate takeover, prompting the Thompson family to take steps to convert the company into a private model " It seems it was not rumored at all, and it has a name (Samuel Belzberg and the Dart Group of Washington);

• "Samuel Belzberg, a financier based in British Columbia, approached Southland’s founding family ...said he was interested in buying the company at $65 a share and that he already held 4.9% of its outstanding common stock"
• "The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the trading in the Southland Corporation's stock in the months before the company announced that it was being acquired by the descendants of the founder of the company...Southland stock was the subject of takeover rumors and unusually heavy trading in the months before the Thompson family made its $5.1 billion leveraged buyout offer. In mid-June, the trading became so heavy that the New York Stock Exchange asked for an explanation...At the time, the takeover rumors centered on the Canadian investor Samuel Belzberg and the Dart Group of Washington. "
• "In 1987, facing a hostile takeover by Samuel Belzberg of Canada,..." ~2026-39396-77 (talk) 00:15, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
• "John and Jere Thompson, the top executives of Southland Corp., thought they had an agreement. After accumulating almost 5 percent of the Dallas company`s stock, Samuel Belzberg, the Canadian corporate raider, would not buy any more.But there he was on the phone one day in June, 1987, saying his advisers were urging him to begin buying again. John took the call in his office, and Jere listened in. ”John got upset,” Jere Thompson recalls. ”He said to Belzberg, `Don`t you do that. You told me you wouldn`t.”`...Belzberg apparently did not buy any more Southland stock. But largely because of that call," ~2026-39396-77 (talk) 00:52, 15 July 2026 (UTC)