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7-Eleven notices customers buying beer in 18 packs and cutting back on cigarette packs
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| April 19, 2009
| Maria Halkias
Posted on 04/19/2009 4:32:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
7-Eleven notices customers buying beer in 18 packs and cutting back on cigarette packsIs 7-Eleven doing the DHS's dirty work???
Just kidding.
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:34:12 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:34:40 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
raise the taxes on those ciggys, and the demand falls. who’d a thunk that? certainly not the dimbulb congress critters.
So they’ll prolly raise the tax again to try to make up the shortfall.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:35:12 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: JoeProBono
“7-Eleven Inc. CEO Joe DePinto says that customers are buying fewer six- and 12-packs of beer, choosing instead the better value 18-packs. Stores are making room in cold cases for the bigger packs...Since the 62-cent federal excise tax went into effect April 1, many pack-a-day customers have become pack-every-three-day customers”
Back in college, I had an apartment across the street from a liquor store that would sell you beer by the individual can and also a single cigarette. As you can imagine, the place was quite popular with the local bum and wino population.
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:42:27 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(It's been a long four years...and it's only April 2009.)
To: JoeProBono
Ummm..., they would all save a lot more money if they *cut out* the beer and cigarettes in the first place... LOL...
But, then, 7-Eleven wouldn’t like it...
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:44:03 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
More people are using their backyard grills. Propane demand is up at 7-Eleven.Hank Hill is smiling.
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:45:16 PM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: JoeProBono
Don’t they sell cases of 24?
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:49:53 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:50:09 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Texas Eagle
it would be cool if the tobacco tax hike causes them to collect fewer revenues.
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:54:21 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: DemforBush
could just shop at Wal-Mart
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posted on
04/19/2009 4:55:43 PM PDT
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GeronL
(TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: JoeProBono
Finally, customers are trading expensive energy drinks and waters for Mountain Dew. The soft drink apparently provides the biggest buzz for a buck. It's moved up a couple of notches to the No. 3 soft drink at 7-Eleven.LOL!!
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posted on
04/19/2009 5:09:43 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: DemforBush
To: GeronL
“it would be cool if the tobacco tax hike causes them to collect fewer revenues.”
That happens almost all the time. Then guess what the pols do? That’s right raise more taxes, again and again.
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posted on
04/19/2009 5:36:35 PM PDT
by
GreyMountainReagan
(Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
To: DemforBush
I remember when practically every gas station around had beer by the can and single cigarettes for sale at the cash register. The cigarettes were a nickel a piece iirc, and you got one complimentary wooden match along with it.
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posted on
04/19/2009 5:38:05 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: mamelukesabre
When I was in the Marines, we somehow came across the keys to an old soda vending machine at our barracks and we filled it up with cans of beer (for 50 cents a can). That was one busy vending machine. The profits were used to throw keg parties on the beach.
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posted on
04/19/2009 6:05:26 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 21 days from outliving Andre the Giant)
To: randog; JoeProBono
Mountain Dew is the nectar of the gods.
But, Jolt Ultra Sugar Free Battery Bottle (16oz) is the sweetest ambrosia of them all!
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posted on
04/19/2009 7:15:00 PM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Buy gold and silver coins to profit from the comming dollar melt down!)
To: rightwinggoth
You never heard of loosies?
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posted on
04/19/2009 7:17:05 PM PDT
by
Peter W. Kessler
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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