July 11, 2026

7-Eleven

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National 7-Eleven Day: convenience stores, American snack culture, and iconic retail moments.

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Today's trivia podcast was made with the help of AI to generate the daily topics and questons.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme

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is National seven eleven Day, convenience stores, American snack culture,

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and iconic retail moments. Question one. Since two thousand and two,

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seven eleven has celebrated July eleventh by giving away free slurpees?

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In What year did the chain first run this giveaway

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that evolved into National seven eleven Day? Question two before

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it adopted the hours inspired name we know today? What

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was seven eleven originally called in its early decades? Question three,

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which oversized fountain drink launched by seven eleven in nineteen

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seventy six, became a pop culture icon of convenience store soda.

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Question four, What everyday item? Was the first product ever

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scanned with a UPC barcode at a checkout in nineteen

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seventy four, a retail milestone quickly embraced by supermarkets and

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convenience stores. Question five, which now ubiquitous snack chip, began

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as a way to repurpose leftover tortillas at Disneyland's Cocata

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Frido's in the early nineteen sixties, before Fredo Lay turned

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it into a national hit. We'll be right back with

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these answers after this break welcome back. Question one What

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year did Free Slurpy Day start? Answer two thousand and two?

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Seven eleven began handing out free small slurpees on July eleventh,

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two thousand and two, to market seventy fifth anniversary. The

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promotion became an annual celebration known as National seven eleven Day.

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Question two? What was seven eleven originally called answer Totem?

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Founded in nineteen twenty seven by the Southland Ice Company

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in Dallas. The stores were called Totem, a nod to

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customers toting goods home, and sometimes Totem pole de corps.

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The name changed to seven eleven in nineteen forty six

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to reflect extended hours. Question three, which nineteen seventy six

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seven eleven drink became iconic answer the Big Gulp. Introduced

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in nineteen seventy six, The Big Gulp popularized self serve

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extra large fountain sodas and influenced portion sizes across American

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convenience stores. It spawned a whole line of even larger

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cups in the years that followed. Question four, What was

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the first item scanned by a UPC? Answer? A ten

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pack of Wrigley's juicy fruit gum. On June twenty sixth,

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nineteen seventy four, a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned

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a ten pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. The UPC

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system revolutionized checkout speed, inventory, and pricing across retail, including

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sea stores. Question five, which chip started at Disneyland's Cosa Deefritos,

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Answer Doritos Employees at Casadefrido's cut and fried surplus tortillas,

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creating a seasoned chip that frido Lay launched nationally in

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nineteen sixty six. Dorito's quickly became a convenience store staple

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and a cultural phenomenon that concludes Today's five daily trivia questions.

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I'm Mark Ellison and to day's questions were crafted with

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the help of AI technology. See you Tomorrow.