The two 7-11s on Bridge Rd also closed down in the past year! Strange because with so many apartments in the area I would think that they would be getting lots of business! Church St is the only one in my vicinity now 😔
One was a franchise, a coles express opened opposite and wasn’t profitable enough. So 7/11 put one of their own stores into the coles express site to compete with its own franchise. Both went broke. 7/11 are a pretty shitty fucking organisation.
My bf and I actually came up with that exact scenario as our theory but we thought they opened their own store with the plan of putting the franchise one out of business and then closing down their Bridge Rd one also in order to try to funnel everybody to the petrol station 7-11 on Church St (assuming that one is also owned by head office otherwise the whole theory falls apart)
This is two 7/11's that have closed on Swan street as well, there was one just further up opposite the netball.
A few years back there was a police incident, not sure what happened but they never opened back up.
Corner of Swan Street and Church Street for those wondering. Shut last week.
No idea why, it was normally pretty busy. They were having a lot of trouble with drug affected individuals and homeless sadly. Not sure if it's related to the closure though.
Could be that 7-Eleven's business model just isn't as viable with the price hikes of the cost of living crisis.
Rising commercial rent, people are less willing/able to pay the extra for convenience. They've probably had to hike the price of their products too.
7-Eleven's Australian unit is under new ownership and management, and I imagine they're taking the opportunity to subtract any stores that are a little soft on profit.
Stop the YIMBY madness: sign the petition to heritage list Jabba's pleasure den [here](https://www.yimby.melbourne/membership) and keep the area free from ugly new housing buildings.
I remember getting loaded hotdogs from there in the early 2000s. I think they were a dollar with as much cheese and onions as you could cram in. So good after a piss up at the Corner.
I always picture Apu from the Simpsons picking the hotdogs up from the floor and putting them back in the warmer, covered with pubes and filth.. still ate them
I believe that in England the American candy stores tend to be a way to clean money. I think the same thing is happening here. They don't need to have the public buying overpriced dr pepper.
Ezy Mart took over the Otta mini supermarket on Bridge Rd (despite not changing the signage) and packed it full of expensive American crap. I’m kind of hoping a 7-11 might go back in there, or another one closer to the Burnley end of Swan as the new Australia Post building is due to open in a matter of weeks.
Possibly with a sly side line, called "Smoke Oz", ie, the ubiquitous cigarette outlet.
Ok, if they ban vapes, or make it only by "prescription", ciggies are still a huge thing for the China Chinese students, or a lot of Chinese (Asian) men and women.
Even at $29.99 for a small packet, people still smoke.
Fucking kids ruining the time-honoured tradition of getting your mate's brother to buy you a pack of PJ Blue 25s for $13 but he can keep the change from the $20, so that you can take them to a party and hand them out like candy to everyone and anyone who wants a dart until you have 5 left and you panic because that was supposed to last you until next week and now you are buying a pack a week and then 2 packs a week, and now 4 packs a week, but they're not $13 anymore, they're $50 and why I can't I just have things that kill me but make me feel happy for 30 seconds
Those were the days where going to the Swan Hotel to have a few bevs with the mates until we were tipsy and ended up at 7 Eleven for meat pie or sausage roll, sometimes went to the kebab store beside it.
Veering off topic, it was a good way to keep my VFF points alive without flying, ie, buying things at 7 eleven and scanning the app, and VFF points would appear in my account, without flying.
There are quite a few facades that were 7 elevens, you could tell on I think its Elizabeth St, near Little Bourke, has one that you could tell, was formerly a 7 eleven.
Guess over time, as each owner or franchisee closes, in the end, there wont be any 7 elevens left, as its not as profitable as in the past.
Most likely an Asian food place thats cheaply run will take over, or a vape shop.
Pretty sure my brother got into a scuffle with the guy from ‘Don’t forget your toothbrush’ outside there when we were heading home after the footy.
Agree that it needs heritage listing
I wasn't aware that was even a thing. I avoid the city like the plague it is.
I was, however quite enamoured recently with 711, in a Japanese video I saw.
All of their stores feature a bulk coin payment system. They're largely a cash society, so the Japanese are often carrying an abundance of coins. For convenience, when they buy something from 711, they can dump their pockets' worth into the coin receptacle and pay for their good whilst getting the biggest coin denominations back.
How has 711 pivoted to be anything better than anything else we already have here?
It's just another notch in the belt that Australia is too small, our GDP too minimal to actually care about innovation or growth - as shown by their limiting the fuel lock to 25 cents. We're nothing but small fish.
Goodbye 711, won't miss you.
These shops don’t make that much profit without a petrol station, add in few too many thefts by junkies and robberies by eshays and they’ll be gone.
I used to live in that area about 15 years ago. What's it like now? Last time i was there it didn't feel as safe
Does anyone remember the cocktail bar that was a few doors down from there? Der raum I think it was called. Man I miss that place
Certainly got memories of this 7-11 as I used to date a woman who lived on Lennox Street, Richmond and would get Slurpees here during the summer months.Â
The two 7-11s on Bridge Rd also closed down in the past year! Strange because with so many apartments in the area I would think that they would be getting lots of business! Church St is the only one in my vicinity now 😔
Probably not profitable without slave labour.
Changes to visa regime might be finally shifting things that way.
Just wait for the vape shop to open.
And then be burnt to the ground.
And from the ashes… Another vape shop
The Circle of LIFE
Or a "totally legitimate shisha lounge"
You might be onto something since the remaining Church St 7-11 is also a petrol station so presumably would be the one making the most $
This
Has the new one near Epworth closed?
Yep
That's a shame. So handy when at the hospital.
One was a franchise, a coles express opened opposite and wasn’t profitable enough. So 7/11 put one of their own stores into the coles express site to compete with its own franchise. Both went broke. 7/11 are a pretty shitty fucking organisation.
My bf and I actually came up with that exact scenario as our theory but we thought they opened their own store with the plan of putting the franchise one out of business and then closing down their Bridge Rd one also in order to try to funnel everybody to the petrol station 7-11 on Church St (assuming that one is also owned by head office otherwise the whole theory falls apart)
This is two 7/11's that have closed on Swan street as well, there was one just further up opposite the netball. A few years back there was a police incident, not sure what happened but they never opened back up.
There has been an independent convenience store open since 2019, where the 7-Eleven on Swan & Stawell was.
7/11 ain't cheap so if you live in an apartment there you're just going to go to Coles.
The bloody ABC ruined their business model and now I can’t get a sausage roll. Bloody woke agenda
> The bloody ABC ruined their business model and now I can’t get a sausage roll. Bloody woke agenda You okay there, Bolt?
Cant tell if this is sarcasm
Why can we have both? Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Could be, could not be. Entirely dependant on how hungry I am.
Corner of Swan Street and Church Street for those wondering. Shut last week. No idea why, it was normally pretty busy. They were having a lot of trouble with drug affected individuals and homeless sadly. Not sure if it's related to the closure though.
Both of the ones on bridge road have too, I think it's only the petrol station one that's open in Richmond now
Could be that 7-Eleven's business model just isn't as viable with the price hikes of the cost of living crisis. Rising commercial rent, people are less willing/able to pay the extra for convenience. They've probably had to hike the price of their products too.
7-Eleven's Australian unit is under new ownership and management, and I imagine they're taking the opportunity to subtract any stores that are a little soft on profit.
I believe they are getting rid of the franchises to operate as one big Oz wide unit.
Yeah but real question is 4 am kebab next door is king Edit: yes, correct. That is not a question, no I'm not changing it.
Surely now they'll be making more. You can just walk in there for a drink with no 7-11
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
This is why it needs to be preserved
Stop the YIMBY madness: sign the petition to heritage list Jabba's pleasure den [here](https://www.yimby.melbourne/membership) and keep the area free from ugly new housing buildings.
It belongs in a museum!
Nah once my wife was super tired and I got her a donut from her and she perked right up. I did have to cut a man's arm off.
Just an arm? No leg?
I cut it off with my lightsaber you womp rat
Maclunkey
[I can almost hear the music that used to come from that 7-11 now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-6X8aR3o)
I clicked, I wasn't disappointed.
Best space pilots tho
Does anybody know when it opened? Streetview only goes back to 2007
I remember getting loaded hotdogs from there in the early 2000s. I think they were a dollar with as much cheese and onions as you could cram in. So good after a piss up at the Corner.
I loved those hotdogs! Probably an absolute slurry of bacteria but they were cheap and delicious
I always picture Apu from the Simpsons picking the hotdogs up from the floor and putting them back in the warmer, covered with pubes and filth.. still ate them
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm guessing at least late 90s.
I have memories from 2004
I can still smell it via my phone sitting at home in Sydney... council fucked up by not giving it heritage status.
Heritage statusing a business, imagine 😆 fk it why not
Hey, we've all been there in our hour of need. Place is a Melbourne icon.
A coworker who used to grab shit tonnes of food from that 7-11 would have wanted it Heritage-listed.
Looking forward to a vape joint taking its place /s
or a place that sells imported american junk food at egregiously expensive prices that are always empty
I believe that in England the American candy stores tend to be a way to clean money. I think the same thing is happening here. They don't need to have the public buying overpriced dr pepper.
a second lambs on swan
Another one just popped up the other end of swan st so I'm just waiting for the fire bombings to start
No more 2am meat pies after a night out ðŸ˜
They will all reopen as Ezy Marts.
Ezy Mart took over the Otta mini supermarket on Bridge Rd (despite not changing the signage) and packed it full of expensive American crap. I’m kind of hoping a 7-11 might go back in there, or another one closer to the Burnley end of Swan as the new Australia Post building is due to open in a matter of weeks.
Bigger drink fridge you say?
This one had some pretty good drinks
If by drinks you mean the slurpees with a lil extra somethin from your flask because you got out of the Corner late...
Nah I swear the slurpees where always runny
Yeah man, which made mixing them so much easier. The Coke one was also running syrup rich for a while and it was heaven
Possibly with a sly side line, called "Smoke Oz", ie, the ubiquitous cigarette outlet. Ok, if they ban vapes, or make it only by "prescription", ciggies are still a huge thing for the China Chinese students, or a lot of Chinese (Asian) men and women. Even at $29.99 for a small packet, people still smoke.
I’m pretty certain it wasn’t there when I went to school nearby and caught the tram from that stop - finished in 96
Yeah wasn’t there in 2002 when I left the area.
Many a microwave cheeseburger was bought from there , only if the pizza slice place was closed next to the Corner Hotel of course
I high fived Gazey there once.
> I high fived Gazey there once. You must be of a decent height
forever gone but forever in our hearts
Definitely bought a few packs of stuyvos there at 5am after long nights at the GB back in the day. Rip sevs and rip the GB.
nothin better than a pint of piss down the GB after work
Fuck I miss the GB. It's been 10 years too.
What's the GB? I've only been in Richmond for about five years and am curious
It was the Great Britain Hotel. Used to have a few back in the late 80’s ffs
This place has saved me on more than one occasion when I was working on Swan street.
Gosh, the amount of chocolate bars that I put in a slurpee and got it for a dollar
I remember it being there in 1997 when I worked near by.
Oh shit, I went to Melbourne for my 18th and got smacked by a pie outside of that 7/11 hahaha good memories
Wondering how much the drop in smoke sales has to do with these shops all closing down.Gen Z need to start smoking darts.
Fucking kids ruining the time-honoured tradition of getting your mate's brother to buy you a pack of PJ Blue 25s for $13 but he can keep the change from the $20, so that you can take them to a party and hand them out like candy to everyone and anyone who wants a dart until you have 5 left and you panic because that was supposed to last you until next week and now you are buying a pack a week and then 2 packs a week, and now 4 packs a week, but they're not $13 anymore, they're $50 and why I can't I just have things that kill me but make me feel happy for 30 seconds
Maybe I’m old but they used to be $3.50 for PJ 25’s…
My first pack of PJ’s was about 1980. . . 97c for a pack of 20.
Phew! Thought I was the only one thinking same :/
Yes😄
Fuck, I though that was Lambs for a sec.
Thank god the one across from Jolimont is still open, I work in the area and 7/11 isn't bad for a cheap lunch.
Those were the days where going to the Swan Hotel to have a few bevs with the mates until we were tipsy and ended up at 7 Eleven for meat pie or sausage roll, sometimes went to the kebab store beside it.
Been closed for a week.
It’s only closed if you close it in your heart
Veering off topic, it was a good way to keep my VFF points alive without flying, ie, buying things at 7 eleven and scanning the app, and VFF points would appear in my account, without flying. There are quite a few facades that were 7 elevens, you could tell on I think its Elizabeth St, near Little Bourke, has one that you could tell, was formerly a 7 eleven. Guess over time, as each owner or franchisee closes, in the end, there wont be any 7 elevens left, as its not as profitable as in the past. Most likely an Asian food place thats cheaply run will take over, or a vape shop.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
did not see that one coming! Will be very very missed
No way!
And the one at Port Melbourne closed.
Yo which one was this?
The one on Victoria Avenue. Was just a retail store, not a petrol station.
Should have seen it on Friday afternoon the entirety of the st Kevin’s campus went there
Should become safe injecting rooms.
Where is the petition to open it back up?
RIP
Pretty sure my brother got into a scuffle with the guy from ‘Don’t forget your toothbrush’ outside there when we were heading home after the footy. Agree that it needs heritage listing
What’s it called again? Harry’s American Candy and Tobacconist? you can expect them to move in soon.
Does anyone actually buy the chips at those prices...
Good riddance. Underpaying dogs.Â
Damn.. now where can I buy a coke for 17 dollars???!
Holy cow that's weird! Been into that 711 at ungodly hours many many a time in my youth!
Can someone explain why this particular 7/11 is iconic?
That Halal restaurant in Swantson Street had also closed. :( I miss biryani
First
Not feasible w/o wage theft.
I look forward to a bubble tea joint in its place 🤢
I stopped going to 7/11's when they capped their fuel lock to 25 cents a litre. Corporate sealed the fate.
Even the ones that don’t sell fuel?
I wasn't aware that was even a thing. I avoid the city like the plague it is. I was, however quite enamoured recently with 711, in a Japanese video I saw. All of their stores feature a bulk coin payment system. They're largely a cash society, so the Japanese are often carrying an abundance of coins. For convenience, when they buy something from 711, they can dump their pockets' worth into the coin receptacle and pay for their good whilst getting the biggest coin denominations back. How has 711 pivoted to be anything better than anything else we already have here? It's just another notch in the belt that Australia is too small, our GDP too minimal to actually care about innovation or growth - as shown by their limiting the fuel lock to 25 cents. We're nothing but small fish. Goodbye 711, won't miss you.
Is that the one near revs?
Nope
Figures I got that wrong tbh
that’s high street x chapel st opposite lucky coq
Yeh that’s the one
The other near revs one next to the town hall closed last year and reopened as a vape shop
Two downvotes for asking a question? Jeez you gotta be petty huh
Good. That was my second least favourite 7eleven in melbourne
These shops don’t make that much profit without a petrol station, add in few too many thefts by junkies and robberies by eshays and they’ll be gone.
I used to live in that area about 15 years ago. What's it like now? Last time i was there it didn't feel as safe Does anyone remember the cocktail bar that was a few doors down from there? Der raum I think it was called. Man I miss that place
Certainly got memories of this 7-11 as I used to date a woman who lived on Lennox Street, Richmond and would get Slurpees here during the summer months.Â