Fantastic news! Now they need to put one on the NW corner of Penn and Hefner where the old Texaco station is.
We used to complain about Walmart putting local and Mom & Pop stores out of business and now OnCue is doing it.
Should be great for Coffee & Cars
The local franchisee of 7-11 deserves to be driven out of business.
Those operations are the c-store equivalent of Homeland.
The local 7-11 franchisee took advantage of their "gentleman's agreement" with QT far too long. It allowed them to remain complacent in terms of store design, amenities, and upgrades to their older locations since they did not have to compete with them. With On-Cues rapid proliferation into the OKC market...the chickens are finally coming home to roost.
I know some people that work for them, they've seen what's coming and are developing a new store model along the lines of QT/On Cue. We'll see how it pans out, but it sounds pretty nice. The Hefner and May 7-11 is also not one of the bad ones. It's larger, cleaner and has a lot of gas pumps. Easiest gas station to get to on my commute, so I end up there a every few weeks. The Penn/122nd 7-11 is tiny, terrible and causes a ton of traffic problems, though.
I'll also add that OKC's 7-11s aren't a franchise. They own the 7-11 name inside the OKC area and all the stores are controlled by the same family owned company. Big corp 7-11 can't operate here.
I don't know about busier but they have maintained about the same customer rate but I think it's going to catch up with them in the long run.
When they finally end their gas war I think both stores will slow down. I think that's when you will see the 7-11 start to feel the brunt of OnCue because right now the 7-11 is getting the overflow from OnCue's gas pumps all being occupied. When these two stores bring their gas prices back in line with the rest of the area I think both of their sales will slow and people will choose the OnCue over the 7-11.
It's going to be more of a marathon than a 100 yard dash between the two and while I think 7-11 can keep up in the 100 yard they will lose out in the marathon.
It hasn't. The UNIX guy was on vacation during my interview, so I was "interviewed" by a Windows guy, who pretty much told me that the UNIX guy has all the knowledge in his head and keeps it from everybody and the Windows guy was thinking about leaving because of the crappy atmosphere. Hell of a thing to encounter in an interview...
[QUOTE=Pete;857420]The local franchisee of 7-11 deserves to be driven out of business.
Absolutely agree, and the sooner the better!
Love it. The more On Cue's, the better IMHO
I created this graphic for all the OnCue locations; green are under construction or planned.
It looks like a lot but of course, there are way more 7-11's around:
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Does OnCue have a flagship store? I feel like they all could be flagship stores. All of them are so nice.
Last time I was in Dallas I went into a 7/11 and it didn't even seem like the same store. Still not as nice as OnCue however.
I agree with Pete that the ones in OKC are the convenient store equivalent of Homeland. A few locations are acceptable, if only barely, but the vast majority have been run into the ground.
It wasn't. 7-11 is a different corporation/company in the rest of the world, other than in a few counties in OK, Oklahoma county being one of them. The local 7-11 stores are owned by someone else, a descendent of one of the original partners that split from the big 7-11 way back, I believe...
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