Thank Heaven
Convenience stores--- I frequent a lot of them. I used to stop at the local 7-11 every Sunday morning to buy the Maine Sunday Telegram and the Boston Globe. I just grabbed the papers never tried their coffee. I always preferred my home brew. This store is on Congress Street in the city proper. If I stop these days, it's just for gas. I really can't remember the last time I walked through the door for anything. No papers and still no caffeine. There's a mini-mart at the head of our street now that dispenses Green Mountain Coffee, my favorite, so I stop there a lot. They brew some of my favorite flavored coffees, without the bitterness of some of the other high-priced brands that we all know and love. However, I sampled Elenka's ice coffee the other day that she bought at Cumberland Farms, another local convenience store in our area. They offer any size coffee or ice coffee for 99¢. Wow! The price is right for sure. I'm going to have to stop by and sample.
I wonder if there's a senior discount on top of the 99¢?
Now, THAT would be a deal.
Is it sad that I'm concerned about discounts like this?
Thank Heaven for 7-11?
Not really!
I really can't remember the last time I bought a newspaper. I don't read them anymore, I remember it was politics, theft, accidents, murder, nothing but negative messages. Too bad I also have to avoid too much coffee, now only once or twice a week, I try hard to keep it like that.
ReplyDeleteNo papers? Surely you jest. Could not exist without my daily morning fix of newspapers, coffee (home brewed) and toast.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite things when visiting my parents....good coffee and the daily paper in the driveway :)
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ReplyDeleteThe first time someone asked if I wanted the Senior discount, I was shocked and just a little insulted. I was still in my mid 50's.. But, I guess I did look pretty old to that 16 year old clerk. Now, I gladly say "senior please."
ReplyDeleteAlmost everywhere here a regular espresso costs 1 Euro ($1.09), sometimes 10-20% more in more in bigger cities, but the 1 Euro price tends to stick...
ReplyDeleteI pick up papers daily, but never at a convenience store.
ReplyDeleteUsed to pick up McDonald's iced tea for a buck. Starbucks sells it for something over $3!
ReplyDeleteWe have a convenience chain called Sheetz and I like their coffee. Those bitter coffees from Seattle ... not so much. Actually, not at all!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite Swedish artists from the band Ratata wrote a song as a solo artist. It's about this girl Sarah, and he waits for her at the corner at 7-eleven. All Swedish 7-eleven shops are corner shops.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEMhRkxcfwk
I walk to the corner store every day for the paper and come back and make tea!
ReplyDeleteOur biggies here are Speedway with all kinds of meals that sit under lights and on rollers....hotdogs as well as their super large coffees for the .99 cents. Then you have UDF "United Dairy Farmers" with their dogs and 10 or 12 varieties of coffee on all day and of course the many flavors of ice cream.....their peach is the flavor of the month right now. Got some today along with Salty Caramel. Black Raspberry and chocolate chips is my favorite however. Local coffee roaster has this blend....mmmm good.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it fun to read our blogger buddies' attitudes and practices toward coffee and newspapers? I have two papers delivered every day, the Wall Street Journal and either the Naples Daily News or Hartford Courant, depending on where I am. Brewed coffee at home, but rarely a day goes by without me stopping at Starbucks for a grande Pike Place.
ReplyDeleteI don't read the newspapers around here.
ReplyDeleteOur paper goes straight from the driveway to the recycling bin.
ReplyDeleteYou can blast through the news in our tiny local paper almost as fast as the cartoon page. You can subscribe online but I still like my news on paper and my coffee (from the home Nespresso machine) black.
ReplyDeleteI don't drink coffee and get my news these days from the Internet and ABC or NBC, although I do read the newspaper when there is one handy. Living out in the middle of nowhere the only option for a daily newspaper is subscription, and our local newspaper, like many others, is struggling and there's not much content. I do notice that the car in your photo is parked by a parking meter next to a curb which is immediately adjacent to the store canopy. I've never seen a convenience store with such a short street frontage..
ReplyDeleteI don't drink coffee and get my news these days from the Internet and ABC or NBC, although I do read the newspaper when there is one handy. Living out in the middle of nowhere the only option for a daily newspaper is subscription, and our local newspaper, like many others, is struggling and there's not much content. I do notice that the car in your photo is parked by a parking meter next to a curb which is immediately adjacent to the store canopy. I've never seen a convenience store with such a short street frontage..
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