Yes, they shut down the Speedy Choice product brand at the end of the year and have been moving through leftover product.ClownLoach wrote: ↑May 23rd, 2022, 5:55 pm7
Went to the built from the ground up Speedway in Irvine last night. I wish I hadn't. This was my favorite convenience store in town and now it is just a 7-Eleven in name only. Nearly all aisles and refrigerated cases have been converted to 7-Eleven assortment now, or I should say lack of assortment. Speedway had really creative flavors of chips available that sometimes sounded scary, like a Pizza flavor and Fire Roasted Corn, but they were actually pretty good. All gone. The soda machine is fully rebranded with Big Gulp signs and of course the 99 cent any size drink is gone. The big size has doubled in price. They removed the Speedway Club card kiosk, yet some sales still require the club and there is no longer a way to sign up in store - brilliant. But the worst is that the Speedy Freeze machine is broken, still Speedway sign and cups, but a big price sticker that says Slurpee pricing. The price has tripled for the same product. And it is clear that cleaning and maintenance has been slashed. The gas pumps were always shiny and new looking because they were sprayed and wiped down daily. Now they are the filthiest pumps in town - aside from the 7-Eleven on Irvine Center. The bathrooms used to be spotlessly clean, I can't imagine how bad they probably are now too. 7-Eleven is a bad joke. I feel like they are intentionally running the Speedway brand into the toilet before they convert it to their name just to make sure they don't have to do any work later on to protect the trademark as it will be so bad nobody will ever resurrect it.
I am surprised they have continued to source the Speedway cups. For a while last summer they had plain cups with no printing then the Speedway cups returned late last year right as they put those signs up about Big Gulp and Slurpee. Of course Big Gulp and Slurpee are nothing more than a sign and a giant price increase for the same product dispensed out of the same old machine. If you want to see irate customers go over to the Speedway Facebook, people are complaining constantly about everything that is going on.
I guess Circle K is the place, at least for now...
Also 7-Eleven converting a bunch of no c-store gas stations I guess these were mostly former USA or Thrifty Gas that really shouldn't have any brand on them to "Speedway Express" that are run by dealers does nothing for the Speedway brand which has always been a controlled corporate brand. Cannot even believe that hut in Long Beach by the Amazon Fresh that acts as a gas station (I guess that was a longtime Arco). I shouldn't knock it as it sold me gas for 5.69, at least they did put the Chip reader in there so I felt safe using pay at the pump unlike at the unit they converted to 7-Eleven I went to that downgraded the pumps to swipe only again (...unbelievable). Of course I still had to go visit the hut for a receipt so I may as well have paid the hut too. The hut still has signs up about a debit card fee, I guess they manually assess that if you do a payment at their hut, as the Speedway payment network does not do that on its own the way the Arco payment network does.