7-Eleven

Located right around the corner from Harvard Square, this is a convenient place to grab a cheap bite around campus indoors.
That being said, disappointed that the Boston 7-​Elevens don’t have wings! =(

Kiki, you are right, slurpies DO = deliciousness!
but their bathroom = nasty. I think I actualy stuck to the door when I opened it from the inside.

slurpies = deliciousness.
convenient in the sense that they sometimes have items cvs doesn’t, but for the most part it’s pretty hard to pull me away from my cvs-​philia.

I work, once a week, about 50 feet away from this Seven Eleven and must say that this one isn’t as good as the rest of them. Part of it isn’t always their fault, they are usually very very busy but they need to do a better job with keeping it clean.
Another thing that really bothers me is their open-​faced drink fridge which means that their drinks don’t ever get very cold, just cool and it not only wastes a ton of electricity, but is just plain inefficient. Especially when customers want cold drinks on a hot summer day.
Sure it sells beer and wine but it is so overpriced that I’d much rather stick to the real liquor store.
It is convenient, sure, but isn’t as good as CVS which is across the street. Oh and their slurpee machines almost never work…

This 7 – 11 makes me sad. The place didn’t look clean (the floors were egh), there’s next to no magazine rack (I was looking for something to read, and it was kind of sad to find it under the register and restricted to Us/​SI/​Newsweek/​etc, whereas you get a much larger selection down in, say, the one near Cambridge City Hall in Central Square), and they have your standard selection of overpriced stuff. Even with the beer/​wine selection, this place just didn’t do it for me in any way whatsoever.

You get virtually NO STARS from this Unilocaler because you failed to have a WORKING slurpee dispenser for my beloved blue raspberry. This was on FREE SLURPEE DAY, by the effing way! How could you do this? You had all the other less delicious flavors, but I made the journey from my comfy, air conditioned office to your smelly, overcrowded and dirty, dirty store for the sole reason of attaining the blue raspberry goodness that only this particular slurpee can fulfill. I am so disappointed, in you 7-​Eleven. If you were on the Simpsons, Homer Simpson would be completely revolted! I was awaiting FREE SLURPEE DAY since I saw the event posted in Unilocal.With some Unilocal events, I have to think 2 things:
1.) Am I an «I’m in»!?
2.) Or am I a «Sounds Cool?»
I did not have to think long and hard about this. I was an «I’m in!» Since I saw the words FREE. SLURPEE. DAY.
I thought, I’d saunter in, grab a cup, and patiently wait my turn in the slurpee line. Well, since I saw the hastily scribbled sign that was placed on the blue raspberry flavor stating «NO WORK», I sadly realized that my trek was all for naught. You disappointed me 7-​Eleven, you disappointed me so much that I will never again grace you with my presence and I’ll never set foot in your store again. Plus you are ALWAYS out of my favorite, Vitamin water, the Energy kind. Is it that difficult to oh, I don’t know, maybe ORDER more cases of this delicious treat? I mean you are centrally located at Harvard Freaking University. FREAKING HARRRVAAARRRD, MAN! Those nerds need all the stamina and energy they can get. I know this, I’m one of them. Why, oh, why do you do this to me??? (Tears…)

This particular 7 Eleven is worth mentioning because it sells beer and wine. The store itself is fine — has all the usual convenience store items. There’s some frozen meals and some stuff you can take home and cook, as well as a bevy of pre-​made sandwiches and hot food items of a dubious nature (I actually saw someone order and eat one of the hotdogs today… and not die. Hmmm). Medicine and beauty items are behind the counter, cleaning supplies in the back by the window.
The wine selection here is actually not horrible — not amazing or eclectic, but some sturdy and reliable stuff that you can get on the way to a dinner party instead of spending $ 35 for a bottle across the way at Cardullo’s. The fridges with the alcohol are locked, you just need to ask someone at the register to open them for you.