{"id":4267,"date":"2011-01-19T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:26:07","slug":"7-11-was-the-first-ever-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/7-11-was-the-first-ever-convenience-store\/","title":{"rendered":"7-11 Was the First Ever Convenience Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/7-11-first-convenience-stor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4268\" title=\"7-11-first-convenience-stor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/7-11-first-convenience-stor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/7-11-first-convenience-stor.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/7-11-first-convenience-stor-340x213.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"7-11 Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/the-7-11-double-big-gulp-holds-200-more-than-the-average-adult-humans-stomach\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting 7-11 Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7-Eleven pioneered the convenience store concept way back in 1927 at the Southland Ice Company in Dallas, Texas.\u00a0 Joe C. Thompson, the manager of the plant, started selling milk, eggs, and bread from an ice dock on Sundays and evenings when the grocery stores were closed.\u00a0\u00a0 He eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into the Southland Corporation, thus opening the first ever \u201cconvenience\u201d store.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting 7-11 Facts Text Version 7-Eleven pioneered the convenience store concept way back in 1927 at the Southland Ice Company in Dallas, Texas.\u00a0 Joe C. Thompson, the manager of the plant, started selling milk, eggs, and bread from an ice dock on Sundays and evenings when the grocery stores were closed.\u00a0\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1168,1167],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-7-11-facts","tag-convenience-story-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}