Ten Reasons Why QuikTrip Should Move to Oklahoma City … and 7-Eleven Should Leave
In the never ending sibling rivalry between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, there is one area where Tulsa can never lose … QuikTrip. I would not trade Bricktown, the Myriad Botanical Gardens or Frontier City for a my beloved QT. However, I think Victor would. Victor is an OKC blogger who writes The Best and Worst of OKC. Like many other OKC residents, he desperately wants a QT. So much, in fact, he has reached out to us to give us his Reasons Why QuikTrip Should Move to OKC and 7-Eleven Should Leave:
10. I could purchase a lottery ticket at QuikTrip should I want too, not an option at 7-Eleven.
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9. No sticky walls or wet floors in the restrooms at QuikTrip.
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8. The succulent assortment of culinary delights that QuikTrip offers.
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7. Clerks at QuikTrip don’t look like escapees from county jail.
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6. The wide array of fountain drink choices and flavored syrups offered at QuikTrip are amazing.
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5. While shopping at QuikTrip there is no need to fear for my life like I do while at 7-Eleven.
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4. Ambulances are not sitting in the parking lot of QuikTrip waiting on a shooting to occur like they do at 7-Eleven.
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3. No reports of dead bodies found near the dumpsters of a QuikTrip.
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2. English is the preferred language at QuikTrip.
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1. QuikTrip does NOT offer the Gulp Shot. (Its 7-Eleven’s newest marketing ploy, I don’t know what it is but it sounds disgusting.)
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(For more on this, check out The Best Thing OKC Doesn’t Have … QuikTrip.)
#4 isn’t completely accurate, go to the QT by Hillcrest, I swear there’s ALWAYS an ambulance parked there. Or the one that really gets me, the QT on 11th by 169 and the police station is probably the one that gets robbed the most. Maybe it’s just me, I’ve only lived in Tulsa for a few years. I don’t keep up with OKC much, so it may be the same way with their 7-Eleven’s.
I would like to submit the distinct possibility that the man in the above photo is the same man who played “Lil Kev” on the season three episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” titled “Sweet Dee Is Dating a Retarded Person.” I have looked into the matter several times, but you don’t really get IMDB credit for slinging gas station sandwiches (even though QT makes the most delicious baked goods and deli items Tulsa has ever known. All hail mighty QT.)
I disagree, 7-11 has movie tie-in slushes. Can you get liquid artillery at QT? I don’t think so!
Do they have hookers at 7-11? Is that why they offer the “Gulp Shot?”. I guess they’ll try anything to get more business.
I think the “Gulp Shot” is an antibiotic, just in case you swallow a hooker.
You’re giving Oklahoma “7 Eleven” more credit than it’s due by using its name. An actual 7 Eleven would provide some competition to QT. Oklahoma “7 Eleven” isn’t a 7 Eleven at all. It’s a POS 1960s bible thumper C-store that somehow got to keep the logo of a decent C-store chain, probably fooling thousands of traveler a year who think they’re stopping at a 7 Eleven only to be transported to some weird time warp Oklahoma “7 Eleven.” It’s one of many brands in this state that suck far more than they do in other states.
The 7-Elevens in the Plano/Dallas TX area are in direct competition (as in across the street) with QT and in reality, there is no competition. Our misfortune of stopping in a 7-Eleven was such a terrible, nightmarish experience, it prompted me to write a letter to the heads of QT thanking them for being an alternative and for having stores there. My daughter just relocated to Frisco from Orlando and was most excited about having access to Taco Buenos and Quik Trips again
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I hate to tell you, but the ambulance is a permanent fixture at their 101st and Memorial location. The view over there is just a bunch of construction workers and traffic cones.
The only 7 11′s ive seen ambulances at frequently are those near highways or busy areas of town (probably to get better response times) and they park at other stores too. QT would probbably be no exception if they were here. Gulp shots are just flavored fountain syrups similar to those you praise QT for. If QT were in OKC it would not be long before the same customers would be frequenting them and you would still fear for your life if you’re that much of a nancy boy. You may just making a little humor and this may be one of those opinions that is not yours but i couldn’t help but respond. With over a hundred stores they are doing something right. For one of the responders, i found out that the guy who brought 7 eleven to the metro did so under an agreement with the original chain when he left that company to go it on his own. They were given this geographical area. Thats why if you search for 7 11 on the chains web site the closest store to okc in in Denton. The chain doesnt go into the city and the city stores dont go out of central OK. And “bible thumpers”, sounds like youre just pissed you cant get condoms or rolling papers, get over it.
I am a QT employee and just so all of u know there is a “Gentlemans Agreement” between Chester Cadiuex and the fine gentleman that started 7-11 a while back to not “invade” each others “territory”, so as long as chester lives it will hold up, so okc will just have to wait ___ number of years, Maybe okc should start a citywide mass petition, lol
To J. Michael, I know there is an agreement/contract between the two, that will not allow QuikTrip into Western Oklahoma, but there can’t be a similar agreement anywhere else, such as the case is in DFW, where QT is moving in fast in that market. The dearth of nice, clean C-stores is now being filled by OnCue. If and when QT ever crosses over to the West, there real competition will come not from 7-Eleven.
You didn’t even mention the gas pumps! At 7/11 there are never more than 4 and you always have to wait in line in a tiny, cramped parking lot. QT has many (clean) pump bays arranged in such a way that even if you do have to wait, you won’t impede traffic through the lot.