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| - This location is a former 7-Eleven and let me tell you, the drop off in cleanliness, friendliness and freshness is steep. First, in a 24-hour town like Las Vegas, any convenience store with a genuine interest in serving it's community needs to be open 24-hours... 7-Eleven is, Circle K is, Terrible's is, Rebel is, GV Mini Mart is NOT. Instead, out come the prison bars at closing time as if someone is going to break in and steal the candy bars. The prison bars on the window look HORRIBLE in our neighborhood, as do the "South Central LA-esque" cigarette ads stuck on the windows. As you walk in the door, you are greeted with a "NO PUBLIC RESTROOM" notice on the door. Mind you, I never used the restroom in the years it was 7-Eleven and I wasn't about to start, but the notice reinforced the notion that this business is here solely to extract as much money as possible from the community while driving down the image of our community with it's cheap liquor-store antics. "Don't ask to use our restroom, it's only for "us", not YOU". For the thousands of stores that 7-Eleven operates nationwide, they at least had nice people behind the counter who could carry a conversation that did not include the forlorning of "Is that all you're going to buy?" Solely profit driven. Do not misunderstand, I vote Republican but even I have my breaking point on "Profit as a reason to exist".
The place is just gross and unclean.
With regard to price. I'm not sure what is meant by "prices aren't as steep", but I walked in for a 44 ounce refill of soda...... $1.29, no kidding. Circle K, 79 cents, Rebel (Down the street) 79 cents. Both run by corporations, both with genuine people working there. 20 ounce bottle of Sprite? $1.69... about the same everywhere.
Having this store here, with it's Budweiser neon and Zig Zag adverts really drives down the look of our neighborhood. It's downright sad to look at, a blight on the city of Henderson.
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