7-Eleven

I stopped here two weekdays in a row at around noon and had no issues finding what we needed.
On the second day, it was especially crowded with high school students buying snacks and food. I was surprised to see that all of their napkin dispensers were empty.
The employees were friendly and even interacted a bit with my toddler.
There were a few empty parking spots available even though they share a lot with a laundromat as Victor G. mentioned, but I imagine that might not be the case on weekends.

They had nachos when we wanted nachos at 4 AM. The cheese was almost gone, so minus two stars for us needing to open the cheese door and scald my hand massaging the cheese bag.
What a good sentence.
7-​Eleven served its purpose, as it always does.

The 100-​year-​old man, who I believe owns the store, is a rude & racist piece of shit. to the community a favor, and do your shopping elsewhere!

This guy on the cashier its so rude piece of shit why spend my money and get treated like crap ll go somewere else where i get treated like a customer

I have no idea how this place stays in business. I’m not sure if the person that helped me was the owner or what, but it actually seemed like he was trying to pick a fight with me at the register. I asked him if he could give me a roll of quarters back with my change and he proceeded to tell me that this wasn’t the Safeway and he would do no such thing. As soon as I exited the store I turn around and see him laughing about the experience with another male customer.
The other employees were Ethiopian so perhaps there was some cultural misogyny at play that I was unaware of, though I have no idea. All I can say for certain is that the employees are rude and the đonuts suck. Never shopping here again.

Always some dirt bag asking for something if front of the store. This store is a serious blight to the area at large. Some of the employees are either have a blind eye or make friends with these A-​holes!
It’s only about the money for this store and it’s owner! They could careless about the there customers or the neighborhood !

Starting with my chief complaint: Constant presence of loiterers out front asking me to get something for them. Let me be clear — this is nothing against people just trying to get by day by day… this is just plain old pan-​handling. Frankly, I don’t feel comfortable going here at night any more for this reason, and therefore have to go elsewhere (e.g. Safeway) for whatever I may need. I like to support local smaller business fronts, but as long as this 7-eleven’s management allows their customers to be bothered (every single time I’ve been there in the last 3 months), I can’t in my right mind support them.
tl;dr sucks having to be bothered by loiterers every time I want a snack or a movie. Management needs to ask these guys to go elsewhere, b/​c at this point, it’s the customers that are moving elsewhere!

this 7 – 11 isn’t as convenient as others as they share the lot with a laundry. this means no parking spaces available.
small store. redbox unit outside store.
eats: french toast sausage roller (1)
–sweet on the crust, nasty meat inside
1 star
will pass next time.
notes:
–yep. no parking available here.
–lotto machine in corner.

Open past midnight which is great because I wash clothes right next door often which is open ²⁴⁄₇. The workers I have encountered have been somewhat pleasant, and willing to give change for washing. Clean store, sketchy at night, sometimes parking is scarce due to them sharing a parking lot with the laundry mat.

This is a black hole kinda convenience store. Most 7 – 11’s are happy spots, bumpin’ with youthful excitement and young glory. But Broadway locale, you guys are weeeeeeeeeeeeeeird. I really hope you’re having fun with whatever it is you’re doing that isn’t your job, seriously guys. I appreciate that I look ten years younger and have a look that says «I SHOPLIFT,» but I’m just a guy that wants to spread the goooood viiiiibage. I hope everyone’s havin’ a good time! But I’ll give you three stars because my good vibes get me change when I need it for the laundromat next door. Thanks for that!

Gotta love Seben Eleben cuz they got slurpees.
This particular Seben Eleben has a Red Box DVD rental kiosk out side the store… odd but true. This is a first for me, seeing a Red Box DVD rental kiosk out side the store. Until now I have only seen the Red Box DVD kiosks inside of stores.

41 St. & Broadway is a homophobic location. Apparently the new guy was not informed with California law or etiquette. He’s the guy w/​the super bloodshot eyes late at night. I went to pay for my stuff & a Oakland Pride flyer fell out of my bag. He picked it up, read it & said, «You like the gays?». I asked, «What do you mean? Why not, Love is love & there’s gonna be some good music there, etc. I said, «You may have a different culture, but this is not appropriate to discuss this in your work place!». Then he started a rampage about, «No, the Bible says no gay, no lesbian, it’s no good, blah blah blah.» I was like «Whatever». I never went back & called the owner to tell him. The a** still works there, but I think he knows who reported him, cause he’s been kissing my ass. Ugh, sorry for the rant, just had to update what’s up in the neighboorhood.
PS: I still do not support this location! Especially sympathizing w/​the local apartments who have to deal with crack heads and late night deliveries honking their truck horns.

BEST 711 EVER!!! clean, nice, and afforfdable. am i rite ppl?

7 – 11 is 7 – 11, right? Nothing special? Yeah, this place is an an ordinary, 3-​star place except for one thing that gets them that fourth star:
THEY HAVE BAWLS.
And chilled, no less. It’s the only place I can regularly find cold Bawls in the original glass bottle. I usually buy at least three every time I go by, just to encourage them to keep stocking it.

My experience at this store has always been fabulous – until today.
I had to get $ 20 cashback so I made two separate transactions back to back, thinking I’d get $ 10 each time. Believe me, I’ve done this before at this location a few times and it has never been a problem.
But this new cashier with a huge attitude problem (an older man) refused to accommodate and flat out refused my request.
The store just lost a good customer today.

This store has come in handy when I’ve needed something past midnight. Not much in my area of Oakland is open 24 hours.
Recently, I got carded for something 18 year olds can buy. I almost gave 5 stars just for that, but, since I’m no longer partaking of that particular vice*, I’ll leave it at 3 stars. Also, it’s usually clean but sketchy people hang about outside.
*For your safety, I would advise you to avoid me for the next 2 – 4 weeks. This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.

They told me they would charge me a dollar extra so I could have 4 quarters for a meter. Then the other employee said no, you can’t do that you HAVE to get cash back. Then he hesitated about giving part of my cash back in quarters. TIME IS TICKING PEOPLE. Argh.
It turned out okay, but seriously I was annoyed they just couldn’t charge me a damn extra dollar.