There are two different 7 - 11 ‘s ?
14 - 22s
Yeah, Southland used to own many/most of them, but the franchise split up and there are probably 50 different owners.
The one is Dallas is Alon USA (an Israeli company, or rather a Delaware company owned by Israeli & US citizens) and owns the FINA refinery in Big Spring, Texas and the 7-Elevens in West Texas and most of New Mexico.
(I used to be one of the 3 owners of Alon, which is why I happen to know this.)
In short, NO RELATION, other than Alon also happens to be a franchise owner -— a big owner.
That said, it is pretty much ALL convenience store policies to not resist a SIMPLE theft -— the amount is small & easily quantifiable from the register receipt, the money is the store’s, and the liability from a clerk killing the wrong person huge.
So a business decision was made to not resist a SIMPLE robbery -— kidnap, rape, leave-the-store robbery or the like -— all bets off and kill, scream, shoot, cooperate -— whatever is appropriate in the clerk’s eyes.
(That, and typically a clerk with a weapon is a drug dealer -— using your store as a base -— but that is another story.)
Last year I moved from Orlando, a city where 7-11s are so common that two stores ended up on the same intersection, when the company bought out a competitor. Now I’m in Lexington, KY, where there are no 7-11s at all. Instead we have Speedway, Thornton’s and Circle K. Does 7-11 control any companies in Kentucky?
I once had a neighborhood convenience store called "8-12", run by East Indians, in Philly I think it was. That's "one-upmanship" for ya.
Speaking of great hats, I wear my Dr. Laura Logo ("Homo's are deviants") hat if I'm going out to bars, I'm not sure of the neighborhood, and don't want to be bothered by trolling cornholers.
Works great. No one's ever said they were going to shoot me, but I was once threatened with a spanking.
