7-Eleven

Even being downtown, I don’t feel like there are a lot of options for places that are open around the clock. That’s super important to me since I’m a night owl and never know when I’ll get a craving for a Slurpee or some other horrendously unhealthy snack food.
Enter: 7-​Eleven!
They’re open 24 hours a day, minus a short period of time when the one overnight clerk takes his lunch break. This is usually around 2:30am or 3am, so you might want to call first if you’re planning a trip over there around that time.
They have a decent amount of (non-​liquor) booze, including some microbrews and Mike’s Harder ciders (do NOT try the apple cinnamon one — it’s atrocious), several self-​serve fountain machines (including one offering mocha iced coffee), tons of snack foods, a decent frozen food section, and a hot food section by the registers.
You can also stock up on more gluttonous of items, like lotto scratchers and cigarettes.

Love this 7 – 11 always socked and super friendly… always looking out for there customers

best place evar to go and think you’re going to get carjacked at any moment ! hah, no really tho.

This 7 – 11 has gone downhill. the store itself is ok but outside it’s super dirty. People leave their trash all over the parking lot and the surrounding neighborhood.

Miss the people that use to work there, the younger guys that work at evening play load rap music (cussing) not fond of it, due to I take my 9 yr. old for slurped runs, other than that they always have a smile (depends when you go) the new manager is cool, nice guy. And the homeless really don’t bother me, been living around the block for 10 yrs, kinda use to it.

Not that I should be anywhere near a 7eleven, but TRASH! They where robbed a couple of months ago. It’s a hang out for mentally ill persons & the gangs are huge… Get your red on

This is one of my common convenience store stops. They rarely run out of cold iced tea in the tall can so it’s great. One of the cashiers tried to «pick me up» which was slightly annoying as I cannot think of many incidents or settings where I like that. There are too many people trying to bum a cigarette outside (I don’t even smoke). So, not a terrible place or a great place per se. I love it’s proximity to the St. James VTA Lightrail stop though.

No free slurpees on Free Slurpee Day? THUMBS DOWN.

The big black dude who works at the counter is phenomenal.
He’s like a big teddy bear and you just want to hug him. Well… maybe not quite hug him… but you get the jest! Anyways you don’t get any sort of uneasy feeling walking in the door, like you sometimes do when you walk in a hole in the wall liquor store or 7 – 11 (the women know what I mean). The place is a cool spot to grab a snack, (icee machine is usually working, and the hot dogs always look good)
So the last dude to comment was right; this location is much more clean then the one next to State, and the traffic is much more tame.
Like all 7 – 11’s in San Jo, the cops are always around drinking coffee, eating donuts and looking for unsavory characters (I suspect).

To The Creator of 7 – 11 Nachos,
See you in hell.
Your brother in transfats and diarrhea,
Gene A.