Promotional stunt turns 7-11 stores into 'Simpsons' Kwik-E-Marts
Associated Press - July 1, 2007 4:14 PM ET
DALLAS (AP) - A dozen 7-11 stores, including one in Chicago, turned into the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame this weekend.
The Kwik-E-Marts, along with the 6,000 other Seven-Elevens around North America will sell Simpsons-themed treats during the month-long promotion. Among them: Buzz Cola, Krusty-O's cereal and Squishees, the slushy Slurpees knockoff.
It's all part of a campaign to hype next month's opening of "The Simpsons Movie" based on the long-running cartoon show.
The cartoon loves to lampoon convenience stores for their unhealthy snacks.
Advertising officials with 7-11 say the promotion shows they get the cartoon's joke.
The Kwik-E-Marts will be covered in industrial foam and given new signs to replicate the animated look of the fictional stores.
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6 comments:
Yo, Joseph Campbell: Where are you when we need you now?
Thank you for making it so I didn't need to post all of those photos. Here's a photo I took this morning of the one in Seattle.
mmmmmm...forbidden Kwik-E-Mart!
I wonder what the local police force things of graphics of Chief Wiggum eating donuts?
I was at the Dallas location this morning! Here's some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pt737swa/sets/72157600607187850/
where is the seattle one? (address-wise.. don't say "washington")
Our Kwik-E-Mart is at 4th and Denny near the Seattle Center.
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