7-Eleven

What I like about this store is that it’s close to school so when I need a snack it’s a hop, skip and a jump away. The place is well kept and clean which is always good for a business downtown. Also, I do find the employees to be attentive and polite.
What I don’t like is the small selection of items compared to other 7 – 11 stores. Ok sure, it’s a small location in the middle of a city but there’s hardly any variety beyond your basic chips and sodas. Sometimes they are out of the item I need the most — Arizona Green Tea :-(
The other hard part about this store is that it’s hard to find unless you know where to look. Wedged between a garage and a restaurant on Arapahoe it’s difficult to see the store if you aren’t looking. I walked right past it and had to circle around. A bigger sign would be nice and I’ll try to remember to take an accurate picture (the one on Unilocal is NOT the same store).
Of course, I’ll keep coming back when I get the munchies but I really wish the selection would be bigger with more variety. Still, it gets the job done and I needed another two star review anyhow so there ya go…

The 7 – 11 inside the Brooks Towers building is a unique, multilevel store that provides a respite from the homogeneity of the rest of this chain. What they sell is no different than other stores, but the footprint here is special. I like the layout, I like the ease at which I’m able to take in the offerings and get back on my way with whatever convenience it was that I must have needed. In this last case it was a cookies-​n-​cream PowerBar and a water. Walking distance from the DCPA, the Auraria campus and Larimer Square make this store a popular favorite.

A normal 7 – 11.

I don’t always drink Slurpees in Lodo. But when I do, I prefer store #22 358.
This 7-​Eleven is a real, bonafide ‘bit city’ convenience store. None of those special touches you get at a Littleton store: this is the real, ‘don’t mop the floors in January’ deal, folks. Its location, 14^th and Arapahoe, is its greatest benefit AND its biggest detriment.
Having a fully-​functional 7-​Eleven within a minute’s walking distance of Cheba Hut, Bovine Theater, Biker Jim’s cart and the theater on 16^th Street Mall? Awesome. Getting hassled* for change every time you go here? Just part of the experience. If Dog Day Afternoon-​era Pacino moved to downtown Denver, this is where he would buy his coffee and load his .38. It is grimy, it is urban, and it is the REAL deal, Denver. Or as real as we get, anyway.
*as in, ‘getting called racial slurs and being physically threatened by an intoxicated loiterer’-hassled
A big redeeming quality of this store is its staff. They’re friendliness is second only to their efficiency. For a store that one would expect to have to ‘shoo’ off panhandlers on a daily basis, this came as a surprise to me, but the clerks have always been on their A-​game whenever I’ve stopped in. Really nice to know that just because they’re in a busier part of the city, the service hasn’t suffered as a result.
Again, even a Big Gulp junkie like me has his limits. There have been a few memorable encounters outside this store that have given me reason to avoid it. But you just can’t keep a good Kwik-​E-​Mart down, ya’ll. In spite of all its relative drawbacks, this is a store I still go out of my way to visit a few times a year, and I’m never disappointed once I make it inside the doors. A true Slurpee oasis in our own downtown urban sprawl? You better thank heaven.

This one has a awesome selection of Donuts and Muffins, the Hot chocolate is delicious. Not Starbucks quality but its good for Convenience store Hot Cocoa. This one didnt have Marshmallows to add but they had Choco Shavings which is a plus. The employees are friendly and the store is clean,