7-11 starts it 7-Election poll

[rainbow4321]

Have been looking for an official website link but it was in our local news that they have started their election year red/blue coffee cup poll. It's done on a national level.

Apparently it has been pretty close to the actual election day results.
Blue Cup = Obama, Red Cup for Mclame. Cup color is recorded on the register when you check out.

Even if you don't buy/like their coffee, might be worth stopping in and getting some just to help out the "blue cup" tallies!

On edit: it is cups for all hot drinks, not just coffee. Tea, anyone? Hot chocolate??
:-)

[grannie4peace]

1. sounds good to me :):)

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Until there's a sudden unexplained "blue cup shortage" at all 7-11's in "swing" states.

How many caffeine junkies are going to go somewhere else just because they don't have the right colored cup?

[grannie4peace]

5. that sounds shitty--- i used to work for 7-11

they should be able to keep enough blue cup around!!!!!!!!

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. I used to work there too

And my boss was a right winger from Arkansas. I have a feeling if he were still running a 7-11, he'd be the type who would "forget" to order the blue cups.

On the other hand, I was working graveyard shift there, including the breakfast rush, and we went through coffee (and hence coffee cups) very fast. If I were working there, I could easily make the excuse that I had to grab the cups fast and restock the dispenser and didn't have time to hunt down any specific colors..... and there would be nothing but "blue" coffee for sale.... at least before 8:00 AM. :evilgrin:

It's almost enough to make me wish I still worked there.

[grannie4peace]

8. 1

:hi:

[rainbow4321]

12. Since the cup color is supposedly recorded in the register...

Customers who go in looking for a blue cup and can't find any available, SHOULD be allowed to get a red cup and just tell the cashier "I see your store has not restocked the blue cups...so I had to get a red one. You need to record this in your register as being a BLUE cup purchase".

Should be simple enough..not that it will be, but it should be!

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. Probably not allowed to do so, for inventory reasons.

Even back in the 80's when I worked for them, 7-11 and other such c-stores used their cups as inventory control tools. You weren't supposed to give away cups to customers, even if they only wanted water or plain ice, charge them full price anyway. Now I imagine they're even more strict about that policy, since the registers and the inventory are no doubt computerized. Hence every purchase of a drink not only counts the cup, but the beverage inside it, so you don't run out of cups or coffee. (Or slurpees or whatever) So they would probably insist on an accurate blue or red cup tracking.

As lame as that sounds.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Just hot drinks?

It will be a bit skewed. Younger people tend to get their caffeine from soft drinks (or the on-tap energy drinks 7-11 has), while the older demographic does coffee.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Good point... I didn't even think of that.

Energy drinks on tap? I had no idea there was such a thing. I don't have any 7-11's close to my neighborhood anymore, so I don't go to their stores very often. Maybe the red/blue thing can expand to "Big Gulp" cups as well?

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Yep, right there at the fountain...

the only time I can even think of drinking one is when I have a long drive ahead of me. Like the Brawndo commercial from idiocracy, they make me "wonder what it would be like to crush a human skull with your bare hands" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04

[tpsbmam]

4. It just occurred to me, I don't remember seeing a 7-11 here so I looked it up...

I also never realized that they had such a high concentration in some states and none in others. I went to the 7-11 site -- there aren't any anywhere around here and from the looks of this map, that's true in lots of states:

http://find.mapmuse.com/brand/7eleven

[rainbow4321]

6. HA! Looks like most all are in the blue parts of the country

Yeah, every state/city has red blotches even if the state is called "blue"..so it may even out but look at the location map:

[anigbrowl]

11. As a daily 7-11 coffee drinker, I'll be putting in 7 votes a week for Obama :-)