7-Eleven quietly takes over a 1,300-store convenience chain

In galore cases, erstwhile a marque buys 1 of its rivals, it tends to destruct immoderate hint of that erstwhile competitor.

That tin hap adjacent erstwhile the purchaser promises to respect the bequest of the archetypal brand.

In 2025, for example, the famed Kum and Go marque disappeared from the satellite of convenience stores, adjacent though its erstwhile proprietor thought that wasn’t the plan.

When erstwhile Kum & Go CEO Kyle Krause and his household made the woody to merchantability their concatenation to Maverik, they had been led to judge that their iconic marque sanction would beryllium kept, according to the Des Moines Register.

That did not happen, and precocious past year, the Maverik marque afloat replaced the memorable and arguably iconic Kum & Go brand.

Something akin is softly happening now, arsenic 7-Eleven has been dilatory replacing Stripes branding with its ain astatine the 1,300-store-strong concatenation it finished purchasing successful 2024. The chain, however, is not disappearing the Stripes marque completely.

7-Eleven bought Stripes successful pieces

Sunoco, which antecedently owned the Stripes brand, sold 1,108 stores from the chain, crossed 18 states, to 7-Eleven successful 2017. At the time, the state presumption marque retained implicit 200 Stripes locations.

"This acquisition supports our maturation strategy successful cardinal geographic areas, including Florida, the mid-Atlantic states, the Northeast states, and Central Texas," erstwhile 7-Eleven CEO Joe DePinto said astatine the time.

The woody faced scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) aft a ailment was filed charging that the merchantability would harm contention successful 76 section markets crossed 20 metropolitan statistical areas.

It was approved by the FTC with immoderate conditions.

"Under the presumption of the last order, 7-Eleven is required to merchantability 26 retail substance outlets that it owns to Sunoco, and Sunoco is required to clasp 33 substance outlets that 7-Eleven different would person acquired. Sunoco intends to person the acquired oregon retained stations from company-operated sites to committee cause sites," according to an FTC property release.

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7-Eleven afloat kept the Stripes marque successful cognition done 2024, erstwhile it purchased the remaining 200-plus stores from Sunoco.

"7-Eleven’s latest woody cements its afloat ownership of some the Stripes and Laredo Taco brands, which it has had partial power implicit for the past fistful of years," according to C-Store Dive.

7-Eleven takes implicit Stripes stores

Once 7-Eleven took afloat ownership of Strips from Sunoco, it began integrating its systems into the concatenation and replacing its branding, astatine slightest partially.