7 Eleven

Yikes. For a 7 – 11 in the heart of affluent bucktown… this place is the Pitts. It is not even worthy of the 7 – 11 brand. Crabby employees (horrible). Dark, dreary, dreadful. Not always stocked. Parking lot is a mess. The one near the Damen blue line is 1000x better. Go there instead.

I would give no star if I can. Staff is so rude. He charge me double coffee. I just checked after i get in my car. Then I went back and showed the receive. I don’t want to come back anymore.

I wish the slurpee machine here worked more often than it does.
Staff seems less than thrilled to be working here.
I like their prices and drink deals.
Inside of the store seems pretty cluttered/​messy half of the time.

I hate that this is the only convenience store within a few blocks of my apartment. The service here is unbelievable rude. Tonight, as I was entering, the entire staff was outside smoking/​talking. They just looked at me as I walked in, didn’t even attempt to help. I grabbed my items and waited for them to come back inside, so I could buy my things. I was surprised at how little they cared. People could’ve just walked in and started taking things, and no one would’ve known.
I’ve had other incidents, such as the manager randomly imposing a $ 5 minimum credit card amount, when trying to buy something under $ 5. I had been there the day before, and there was no such minimum. A few days later, I had a different employee, and there was no mention of such minimum. I think some people there are miserable and try to pass it on to other people for no reason. If I had any, ANY other option of a convenience store around the Armitage/​Damen area, I would go there instead.

Was just here tonight. Left work with some of my coworkers (fellow bartenders) to grab a bottle of wine. Guy at the counter said it was too late to buy and we totally understood. We joked with him for a bit telling him we’d give him all of our money if we could please take it home. He was really sweet when explaining he would if he could but it was past the legal allowance to sell it. After we left the store we met the manger who was standing outside smoking. He told us if we met him around back he would sell us any bottle of wine we wanted for at least $ 25. WHAT? Talk about a criminal! Then when we said no, we’d settle for what we have at home he said, «fine, fuck you then.» He continued to finish his cigarette while the other employee was inside alone. What a jackass. I’ll spend extra money on sodas and booze at the insanely priced liquor store across the street before I’ll ever step back into this 7-​eleven.

The Choco-​Tacos are always frozen (never freezer burned) and the Coke Slurpees flow like wine.
In a part of town so overrun with mom and pop boutiques and farm to table dining options, it’s nice to still have ONE establishment you can rely on for competitively-​priced Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

New staff working here — bilingual and nice. This place is kinda pricey but is a good local «in a pinch» place to get items in between supermarket shopping trips. They also have liquor sales. Not sure about the Slurpies, it doesn’t seem to be working often.

Slurpie machine is usually broken or has warm slurpies… yuck.
Poor selection of pop.
This place is just gross.

The guy who owns this 7 Eleven is a major prick. He just imposed a $ 5 min spend on credit and debit card transactions and told me I would have to either pay cash for my stuff or go buy more stuff so my total bill was over $ 5 if I wanted to use my card. Yes. Sir. I’m going to go grab more junk food (half of it probably past its expiration date) and another slurpee just to bring my spend over $ 5, so I can have my snack. No Thank You!
He even went so far as to say this was a policy mandated by corporate 7 Eleven. What a joke!
I don’t know about you, but practically everything I buy at convenience stores is less than $ 5 and I always use a card to pay. It should be illegal to deny a man his coffee for being out of cash! That’s just cruel.
p. s. I’m sure he doesn’t know that he is in violation of his merchant agreement with Visa by imposing a min spend on debit card transactions. Anyone think I should report him to Visa?

I live so close to this place and it is my go-​to place for the last minute things … and I HATE IT. Lets start with the store. They do not have quite the selection as most 7−11s and they don’t care because they get so many drunk people coming in to make them enough money that they don’t care about their regulars’ opinion.
Then they try to tell you that you cannot use your credit card for a purchase under $ 5. Let me tell you because everyone should know, that is ILLEGAL! Just swipe and proceed because they cannot tell you that you cannot do it.
Go there if you need to, but don’t seek it out.

Im a big fan of 711. they have everything from hot dogs to slurpees and if you do your banking with a credit union then any ATM at a 711 fee free! co-​op network people.
anyway…this one in particular isnt as good as the rest. Yesterday their slurpee machine only had 2 out of 5 flavors working, the guy at the counter is usually rude and really never smiles…
I just dont get a good vibe when I go in there either
Hipster infestation level: 3