7-Eleven

I came here on Thursday night to pick up a Moneygram on my way home that my cousin from Canada had sent me. I went inside and asked the man behind the register if I could pick it up and he and another worker said that Moneygrams are not available at the store, only money orders. I had double checked the Moneygram website, and this location is listed as a moneygram location. As I was about to leave I looked at the ATM in the corner and saw the Moneygram logo, so I decided to give it a try to see if I could get the money out, but you have to call the 1 – 800 number on the machine first and talk to somene in a call-​center in India first and you have to provide a ton of information to him before he will release the money to the machine. What a pain! So I decided to leave and try Walmart instead. You would think the people working at the store would know what’s up with the store, but apparently they don’t.

First of all, this review is probably rather biased because I used to work there a few years ago.
I also make no claim that the stuff I write below still happens. Hopefully not, of course.
The vice mayor of Milpitas and his then-​wife, Bob and Sheila, used to own the store and upon divorce, the wife bought the store. She also had (or has) another 7-​Eleven store in Milpitas.
The parents of the mayor (the grandpa and grandma, Joe and his wife) still helped around with the accounting.
The manager back then was Sheila’s sister, Sue.
Don’t get me wrong. I did like working there.
Only one thing that bothered me though…
You know… some of irresponsible customers like to just go to the Slurpee machine, grabbed the cup, Slurpee tasting it and left the cup there next to the machine. They may not buy it at all, or sometimes they do buy it, they may just take a new cup and left the previous one there.
Well, all those cups do cost the store money and if that keeps happening, pretty soon it will add up to a big number.
Then, you may ask… Why doesn’t the employee «shoo» them away?
Here is why:
(Note: In this store, only 1 person works for the entire 8 hour shift.)
1). Since I was alone, I can not always keep my eyes on the Slurpee machine. I may be out to the back room (briefly) to get more stock on cigarettes or in the walk-​in fridge to stock more beverages. I may be making coffee, or I maybe in the bathroom. Sure, they have camera, but who’s going to sue someone wasting Slurpee cups.
2). Since I was alone, I also did not want to piss off customer. Let’s say if the customer were a big scrawny guy? Ha!
Anyway, since that apparently kept happening and started to eat up the store inventory, I was asked (by the grandma) to wash the plastic cup at the back, dried them and put them back in those cup holder.
Unsanitary. 1 star off for that.