What’s Inside an American Convenience Store?

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Hi, everyone! today we gonna be talking about ammerican culture.
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Specificaly, we gonna talk about convenience stores.
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Convenience stores are small retail shops, they sell wide for area goods. They sell everything from food and drinkings
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to snacks, accessories, car maintenance tools
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and other things.
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The United States has over 150,000 convenience stores around the country.
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The largest is Seven-Eleven
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franchise. America has a huge
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driving culture and it's very normal
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to use your cars to commute everywhere.
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This means gas stations typically open for long period of time.
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In many cases, gas stations open 24/7,
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meaning 24 hours 7 days a week.
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this makes very convenient for late night drivers.
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Convenience stores in U.S. might be little bit different
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than what's you use to in home country.
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Typically convenience stores are paired with gasoline stands.
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So it's pretty weird to find convenience stores
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that doesn't have gas popup attached, because of this,
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convenience stores typically are found in the major highways or
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on the side of the really big roads.
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It's really uncommon to see the convenience stores in your neighborhood or
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on the small alleys and so on. So, for this reason, it's pretty uncommon to see people walking to visit the convenience store.
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The best way to get to the convenience stores is actually to drive there.
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The main sources of revenue for most of the convenience stores
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in the United States is gasoline about
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96% of total revenue for most convenience stores in the United States
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come from gasoline sales. For the rest of
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revenue comes from sales goods inside of the stores.
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Let's take a look some of the foods you can expect to find in a
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typical American convenience store. First of all,
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you can find a huge selection of snacks, foods,
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and various drinks. People spend about 25 million dollars
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in 2017 on food inside convenience stores.
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But most of the food you find in the convenience stores,
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it isn't that nutritious. It's typically stuff
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easy to eat while you're driving, and salads aren`t so easy
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to eat behind the wheel.
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But a bag of potato chips and energy drinks
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are pretty convenient for late night drivers. Well, they might not be
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the healthy option, they are pretty tasty from time to time.
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Some classic American convenience store foods
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what you can always find Slim Jim sausages,
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pre-made cake and pastries,
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bags of potato chips and any candy bar you might want
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There are some things you can find
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only in the convenience stores in America.
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This includes local favorites like boiled peanuts in a ??? parts of America
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or freshly delivery crespy cream donuts
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Each stores also has its own special tea items
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7-11 has its famous cold drinks called the Slurpee
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and the chain WoaWoa is known for its coffee.
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Well, hot foods are available in the convenience stores in the USA,
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they don't have to face reputation
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for being grade on flavor
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It's pretty common to find selection of hot dogs or microwave sandwiches
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that customers heat it up themselves and eat it on the go.
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But the problem with these is most of the items are
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not actually fresh and they've been sitting under heat land all day,
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so they might not have the best flavor and
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they might not be the best quality.
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there's usually no place to sit down
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and eat inside of the convenience store,
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as most of the thing sold inside of convenience store are taken along with you as you drive.
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There are other section you can expect to find them
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in American convenience stores. These includes car supplies,
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accessories, a lot of cards, and the ice cream freezer.
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Convenience stores in America accept cash and credit cards
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and in many cases the pumps itself will
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take your credit card payment if you want to go inside
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of the convenience stores to make your payment, however, you need to tell
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the clerk of the convenience store the number of your pump
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and how much you would like to pay.
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For example, $ 20 on pump #4,
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means you'd like to pay 20 dollars for the gasoline at pump number 4.
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so you can use cash to do this or you can use credit card.
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So how do American convenience store compare to
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convenience stores in your country? What is similar? What is different?
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And is there any thing you's like to know about American culture?
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