I'm all confused how the company is divided now and who controls what. I thought all Sunoco's with APlus (a brand that came from Atlantic when Arco went away in the Northeast?) branded mini marts were company owned, and that is what 7-11 acquired, but now I have no idea as I see a few APlus units have converted to 7/11 (fuel still branded Sunoco), a few that have completely de-branded to generic 'Food Mart' status (sold to independent operators?), and others that have received a remodel with the new APlus branding. And then there were plenty others that never had APlus branding to begin with (either generic mini mart and/or mainly an auto repair facility)
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7-Eleven bought the corporate operated Sunoco A-Plus units. My understanding is they have converted all of the units they want to keep, to 7-Eleven.
Some of those corporate operated Sunoco A-Plus units that 7-Eleven bought, they did not actually want to keep. So they ran them as A-Plus for a while then sold them/subleased them and some of those stayed A-Plus as franchisees and some of those went to independent operators.
There are still some franchise A-Plus units out there. Those didn't and don't have anything to do with 7-Eleven.