Way back in January – when life was a more normal crazy – we scooped the entire OKC business media collective when we reported that Central Oklahoma 7-Eleven Stores were being sold to Corporate Overlords out of Dallas. It was a hard-hitting report that included me going deep undercover as a real-life 7-Eleven customer. You can read the whole thing here.
At the end of the report, I closed with a plea for more information about the deal, including the fate of one specific product:
It will be interesting to see what, if any, effect this will have on things. You don’t have to drive by more than five or six OnCues on NW Expressway to know that 7-Eleven has fallen behind in the local gas station scene...
Feel free to contact us if you have any tips or details about the deal, including if Oklahoma will finally have rights to the Slurpee.
Well, I guess we finally know the answer. Over the holiday weekend, our Free Queso podcast host Judie Matthews – an intelligent and experienced person – reported that the venerable 7-Eleven on 23rd & Penn, the unofficial convenience store of OKC's underworld, has made the Slurpee switch: