7-Eleven Shifts Focus to Healthier Food Options
The chain that is home of the Slurpee, Big Gulp and self-serve nachos with chili and cheese is betting that consumers will stop in for yogurt parfaits, crudité and lean turkey on whole wheat bread.
7-Eleven, the convenience store chain, is restocking its shelves with an eye toward health. Over the last year, the retailer has introduced a line of fresh foods for the calorie conscious and trimmed down its more indulgent fare by creating portion-size items.
The change is as much about consumers’ expanding waistlines as the company’s bottom line. By 2015, the retailer aims to have 20 percent of sales come from fresh foods in its American and Canadian stores, up from about 10 percent currently, according to a company spokesman.
“We’re aspiring to be more of a food and beverage company, and that aligns with what the consumer now wants, which is more tasty, healthy, fresh food choices,” said Joseph M. DePinto, the chief executive of 7-Eleven, a subsidiary of the Japanese company, Seven & i Holdings.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/business/7-eleven-stores-focus-on-healthier-food-options.html
Certain web sites will be blaring with "Michelle Obama took away our slurpees!!!"
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But I have to saw it is easier on my back than getting under the hood at the grocery store olive bar.
Truthfully this shows that 7-11 is trying to get food money out of their morning coffee crowd.
those mean clerks don't like that explanation even more than me sticking my head up under the cheese spout.
