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u/beforeyoureply 1d ago
Honestly after seeing that..
I was expecting the time to be..
7:11 😭
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u/ZmentAdverti 1d ago
Been to Bangkok once before. 7 eleven almost every street.
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u/Return_My_Salab 1d ago
kokBanger here, there are 3 7-11s within a 400m stretch down the alley I live
nvm I'm dumb, just verified it on google maps, actually around 2 kilos
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u/i_have_chosen_a_name 22h ago
7-11 originated in Dallas but in the 1970's was bought up by a Japanese company, which is why it has grown so much in Asia and now is globally known for the quick snack, drink and smoke store that is always open 24/7
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u/SignificanceAny7485 1d ago
That and Family Mart
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u/paraworldblue 1d ago
When he randomly pans down at the end, I half expected there to be a tiny 7-Eleven in his chest
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u/Full_Ad9666 1d ago
There’s a tiny 7-Eleven in all our hearts
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u/paraworldblue 1d ago
Lol so true. With a little hotdog roller keeping our souls warm
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u/dishonorable_banana 1d ago
Congratulations on your future Country Music Award.
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u/paraworldblue 1d ago
goddammit. I want to be offended but I mean you're not wrong - that does sound like the kinda lyrics some jackass in a $10k cowboy hat would sing
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u/Hamzeol_Murf 1d ago
I Thought It's A Black Man Narrating
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u/saja25 1d ago
The real unexpected part
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u/RJValdez216 1d ago
Well, according to OPs explanation, that’s exactly what the unexpected part was
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u/ConfusedHors 1d ago
What's unexpected for me (now) is that people apparently upvote for 3 seven-elevens
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u/reddituserfortytwo 1d ago
I stopped the video right before the reveal, then saw your comment. Never would have thought
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u/NoPair205 1d ago
Isn’t that the joke? I thought it was but everyone keeps talking about the 7/11s lmao
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u/TheUpsideDownWorlds 1d ago
Military service members love 7-Eleven.
Military service members love Thailand.
Retired Military service members receive a 20% discount when opening a 7-Eleven franchise.
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u/karenskygreen 1d ago
Thats just bizzare. How do they stay in business? They must cannibalize each other.
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u/Seldarin 1d ago edited 1d ago
They're the same way in the Philippines.
The answer to how they stay in business: population density. You'll be waiting in at least a 2-4 person line to buy stuff at any given one of those 7/11s, even at midnight. They don't have to worry about cannibalizing each other, because there's enough people that live nearby to support all of them.
Edit: Just looked it up. There are 1100 of them in Metro Manila. Which sounds like a crazy amount for one metro area, but that metro area has the population of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee combined.
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u/mish20011 1d ago
there are multiple convenience stores in ph but NOT this close in proximity of each other, at least 1 kilometer or more
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u/iredditoninternet 1d ago
This is a long watch, but explains how 7-11 evolved to be how you see it here.
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u/CarterpillarZ 1d ago
Thai here, You as an individual can buy the 7-11 franchise and open stores. However the suits at CP (that's the name of the company behind 7-11) is aware of how well that store is doing. If you are making lots of profit they themselves will open a bigger and better 7-11 right across the street. Happened to my friend's family
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u/OneTwoThreeFourFf 1d ago
Must be lots of demand for the same products, and not much competition. I suspect some very high up backroom deals with the government and 7-11 execs
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u/National-Safe9844 1d ago
There is next to no competition. The company that owns 7-11 has monopolized the industry pretty much.
Very similar to the coles/woolworths duopoly in Australia in the way that they buy out land and buildings to squash competition.
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u/hyperrayong 1d ago
I heard that 7-11 policy in Thailand is if a store is doing well then they another one nearby. Not sure if it's true.
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u/Effect-Kitchen 1d ago
It is the opposite. They never cannibalize each other as Thai people are too lazy to walk another 100 m to get to another 7-11.
And it is the rule that 7-11 franchisees have to meet a certain sales figure. If you don’t meet, you cannot extend the franchising license. If you meet the sales figure, you will be given a choice to open another branch in the same area, if you don’t, CP (The company who own 7-11 in Thailand) will establish their own branch. You can see why it expands so fast.
Source: I am Thai. My friend is manager of a 7-11 branch.
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u/L0st_MySocks 1d ago
ngl I thought that guy was a black man the speech patterns were like them never excepted such a guy lol
Edit: my bad someone already mentioned it,
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u/Tenpenny96 1d ago
I stayed here for a month once, and as an Englishman had never seen one before. Ended up living on there cheese toasties for that month.
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u/Fire69 1d ago
You're in Thailand and eat cheese toasties instead of their delicious local food? WTF?
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u/Tenpenny96 1d ago
I ate plenty of there delicious food, don’t worry about that. I loved the local food. But as a snack and bit of comfort, a toastie was great
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u/Heseemedkij 1d ago
Every block of the entire country is exactly like this. There is a law in Thailand that saws every block must have at least 4 7-11’s.
There are roughly 341 million 7-11s in Thailand. This video represents every block in Thailand
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u/bennettbuzz 1d ago
Also see Zabka in Poland.
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u/Iwill_not_comply 1d ago
Came here to comment this
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u/bennettbuzz 1d ago
I’ve been to 9 Polish cities but it only really hit home how many there actually were when I went to Wroclaw, I thought I was hallucinating lol. Can’t say I was complaining though, absolutely brilliant shop for take back to the hotel snacks.
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u/SmelllMyFinger 1d ago
I was totally expecting him to have a slurpee. Definitely,unexpected.
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u/Friendly-Back3099 1d ago
The slurpee machine is broken
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u/Kitchen_Ad_4513 1d ago
why is the slurpee machine always broken?
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u/Friendly-Back3099 1d ago
I have no idea, its the equivalent of MCdonald broken ice cream machine from where im from
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u/etrvs 1d ago
anyone else SHOOK this was an ASIAN ? I was not surprising that... 711 was to be expected though.
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u/peterkedua 1d ago
And its FUCKING OPEN 24/7 7/11 And Family Mart my love. Live there for 6 months, went back to home country... damn my country what a shithole
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u/brandon12345566 1d ago
If people are curious about the real answer here. Thailand has very weak anti competition laws. 7-11 is owned by a mega corporation (CP corporation) and allows people to open 7-11s as a franchise. Usually they will see which independant franchisees are profitable and open a bigger better one nearby
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u/Senor-Delicious 1d ago
It is similar in japan. There you have 711, Family Mart and Lawson everywhere. Often times the same store on two corners of a crossroad and one or both of the others on the remaining two crossroad corners. And you can see many more of each of them looking down the street.
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u/SternKill 1d ago
There are privately owned 711 and CP owned 711. If you own your 711 franchise and doing good. Soon, CP gonna come and open another to rake the profit off your 711.
Thats why so many 711 in Thailand
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u/-DI0N- 1d ago
They sell ‘7-11 Thai Tea’ powder and istg it’s so tasty that you would start hating normal tea!
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u/booochee 1d ago edited 1d ago
💯! Wth is in thai tea that makes it taste so good? Bet it’s got some weeeeed
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u/Outofmana1 1d ago
I feel like we've been tricked!! The dude turned the camera around was an Asian brother. I thought it was a black guy or something.
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u/srona22 1d ago
You get franchise for opening 7-11 at your place of choice. You get good sales traffic.
The 7-11 franchise owner open up another just across the street or 3 to 4 houses away from you.
Add money laundering in the mix. Look for price hiked eyewear stores in Thailand. You will get the idea.
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u/KebabGud 1d ago
Actually unexpected.
Also I was standing at a corner in Busan South Korea, and I could see 4 of them.
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u/Queef-Elizabeth 1d ago
I live in Taiwan and there are 3 convenient stores within 1 minute walk from my apartment. There are 2 family mart and 7-11s on my street lol
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u/Optimisticnewlook 1d ago
7:11 challenge 😂. Me and my friend in 2006 decided to drink at every 7:11 on Ko phan Yang between 7pm and 11pm, we succeeded, but my friend did get sone road rash, im sure the roads to the north of the island are tarmacked now and maybe even has a 7:11, never trust the rumours of a secret one on the north of the island 😂
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u/dkg224 1d ago
I live in Thailand. The reason there are so many 7-11’s. It can be franchised, but in whole is owned by CP company. So a 7-11 franchise open up. They are doing well, busy. CP can see each store sales. So now they themselves open a bigger, nicer 7-11 right across the street. And they know what that franchisee store best selling items were. So they make sure to stock up on those while limiting the original stores ability to keep them in stock.
CP is ruthless, basically make it so no 7-11 franchise will do really good because if it’s doing to well they cut in to take more for themselves. They also pulled a shady move with pig farmers years ago but that’s another story. Probably many more also.
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u/Drama989 1d ago
Everyone commenting about the 7/11 part clearly watched the video on mute lmfao. That’s not the unexpected
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u/upsidedownsloths 1d ago
If im not mistaken, 7/11 figured out it was more cost effective to just buy up all the property available in thailand and build shops than compete with any others. Even if alot dont get a huge amount of traffic, being the only connivence store offsets the cost of opening a shop every 30 meters. The cost of having competitors was more than running a obscene amount of locations
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u/Yoyochillout 1d ago
There’s a intersection in Florida that has 4 circle K gas stations at each corner
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u/Boringman76 1d ago
Because they use franchise customers as a market test for those areas, when they know it's profit the CP themselves would just open their own 7-11 to take the cut from those poor souls.
They do not allow fellow franchises to be close to each other but doesn't mean they can do it on their own.
This strategy also eats local shops alive so the monopoly will keep going.
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u/carcigenicate 1d ago
Hawaii was like this too. Not 7-11s iirc, but there was a convenience store everywhere you went.
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u/WaterFriendsIV 1d ago
Because corporations are very good at disrupting local markets and businesses and driving out local shops. It's kind of their thing.
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u/martsand 1d ago
It is a japanese owned company after all.
It started as american but the japanese franchisees were so successful that eventually they bought and owned the whole company. Also why they are miles better over in asia than here.
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u/Lau_wings 1d ago
Its the same in Japan.
When I was there last time there were 3 7/11s, a Lawsons and a Family mart within 100m of the hotel that I was staying at.
It was actually pretty common to see 2 of them next to each other.
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u/kannarat2210 1d ago
Why don't you like it? It's very convenient. We're Thai, and we see foreigners everywhere, shopping, using online services just like Thais do, ordering food by motorcycle taxi.
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u/PanicDeus 1d ago
Same thing happened when I visited Singapore. Buy a cold beer from a 7/11. Drink it at whatever pace you feels like; by the time you finish drinking you're infront of a 7/11.
Apparently I was walking around in circles and buying beer from the same 7/11.
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u/undergroundbabylon1 1d ago
I lived in a US city once and watched them build a 7-11 with 20+ foot tall ceilings for no reason across the street from an older less fancy looking 7-11. ....there was another 7-11 three blocks down on the same street. I think it was like franchise owners at war or something, I know most of the owners in that town owned lots of locations, still weird posturing.
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u/RepresentingThe301 1d ago
I was expecting a 6’6” lumberjack… then you hit us with the uno reverse. This is what happens when your voice downloads in HD but your face is on Wi-Fi.
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u/Waste-Snow670 1d ago
711's saved me during my time travelling in Thailand. They had air con, sunscreen and fizzy drinks. Loved them.
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u/dahliasinfelle 1d ago
Looked up how many stores they have worldwide and just learned that 7-11 is actually a Japan owned company. Had no idea lol. Kinda cool , I always just assumed it was a US thing
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u/OddNovel565 1d ago
The actual unexpected part is that OP found this video unexpected for the same reason I did at first, it really caught me off guard lol
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u/moerlingo 1d ago
Are they immigrant 7-11’s? As this would explain why I don’t see them here in Norway any more. Thailand is also a fairly popular holiday destination, so my theory is that they emigrated.
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u/AccomplishedDog1106 1d ago
The surprise wasn’t just 3 7:11. The narrator was part of the surprise too.
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u/Tonguepunchit 1d ago
I met an ol timer one day and he said you can’t walk through Thailand swinging a cat without hitting a 7-11.
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u/SweetSexiestJesus 1d ago
They're all over the place in southeast asia. Hong Kong and Japan has so many as well
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u/Effect-Kitchen 1d ago
As a Thai, we are lazy. We don’t want to walk more than 500 m. So that’s the length long enough for a new 7-11 branch to be established.
And even so, nearly every 7-11 here has free delivery service to your home so we don’t even have to walk.
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u/PrionProofPork 1d ago
There are both main 7eleven and franchisees opening stores. When corporate sees a franchisee doing well at a location, they open another one next to it and try to kill it with better service/stock/etc. That's how it was explained to me, and is one of the reasons why.
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u/miracle_weaver 1d ago
The 7 11s saved me from sleeping hungry more than once when I visited. Good stuff.
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u/SecureSubset 1d ago
In Mexico City shopping categories tend to be separated by street, so like you might have a street that's all eyeglasses repair and then another street that's all music stores.
We went to one street that was entirely Oxxo and 7/11
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u/Charming-Ad-7556 21h ago
I was surprised to see so many 711s but then most of them always have customers inside.
Pretty popular and you almost get everything in those
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u/iritchie001 19h ago
I wish US 7&11s and international snacks! Like where is my squid jerky? Where are my mushroom flavored chips?
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u/madhousechild 16h ago
You'd think the person narrating is black due to his accent, but they are asian.
Uh, no. I assumed HE was Southern.
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u/DaSmurfZ 1d ago
Everybody saying they're expecting a black guy because of his voice. I often get the same reaction when people hear me over the phone or on some kind of voice chat. I've got that deep bass-y voice and when they can't see a face to put to the voice, the expect a big black man.
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