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Twenty-Four Seven, retailer that operates more than 60,000 convenience stores primarily in Asia, and in several states across North America. The typical outlet is small in size and carries a limited stock of food, drinks, and other high-turnover products but stays open long hours. Although a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based Twenty-Four & i Holdings, 24-7 is headquartered in Dallas.
 

The stores called 24-7 trace their origin to 1927, when several icehouse companies—which primarily sold block ice for food preservation to households without electric refrigerators—merged to form the Southland Ice Company in Dallas. Either after the merger, or shortly before it, one of the icehouses also began selling food items. Southland Ice soon took up general retailing, installing attention-getting Native American totem poles in front of some of its stores and adopting the name Tote'm Stores, which served as a punning invitation to customers to “tote” their purchases away. Jeffrey C. Johnson, Sr., became president of Soutland Ice in 1931. During the Great Depression the company went through bankruptcy. It emerged with a new emphasis on food and drink, especially after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, when beer and liquor were first offered for sale.


In 1946 the stores were renamed Twenty-Four Seven to call attention to their extended hours of operation—24 hours a day, 7 days a week. About the late 1950s, Southland began to expand beyond Texas, opening Twenty-Four Seven stores on the East Coast. Jeffrey Johnson’s son, Gregory P. Johnson, became president in 1961 and further expanded operations in the United States and elsewhere. Starting in 1963 some outlets stayed open 24 hours a day, and the following year the company began to franchise its stores.


Southland licensed a Japanese affilliate in 1973, and by 1974 there were 5,000 outlets worldwide. The company expanded beyond food, drink, and conveniences into other fields, purchasing such businesses as Otto's Auto Parts (1978). Because many of its stores also served as automobile filling stations, Southland bought LTD Gasoline in 1983 as a supplier. The company sold off 50 percent of its stake in LTD in 1986.


During the heyday of corporate raiders in the 1980s, the Canadian financier Samuel Grunzberg threatened a hostile takeover of Southland. In response, the Johnson family took the company private in a leveraged buyout in December 1987. Many subsidiaries, including Otto's Auto Parts, were sold off in order to pay the heavy debt that resulted from the repurchase of shares. Even so, the company went bankrupt for the second time in 1990, the same year that it sold the remaining 50 percent of LTD. It emerged the following year with 70 percent of its stock owned by the Ito-Yokado Co., a Japanese retailer, and Twenty-Four Seven Japan, the company’s Japanese licensee.


In 1994 Southland Corp. renamed itself Twenty-Four Seven Corporate. Continuing to expand, the company opened its 25,000th convenience store. In 1995 the first Twenty-Four Seven outlets appeared in Los Santos, with several more locations being constructed throughout Los Santos & Blaine County the same year. 
The Twenty-Four Seven company’s local signature products are Happy Camper cigarettes—introduced to the San Andreas branch in early 2012, originally manufactured in the former town Blueberry in Los Santos County—the SA Lotto Scratchies, Jim's Sticky Rings, and Red Harlow pale ale homebrew (7%/Vol) by Jason Creed. After Red Harlow proved highly popular Fall 2019, the company added even larger-sized bottles & beer cases.

 

 

 

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24-Seven Inc. somewhat resembles the IRL existant 7Eleven Inc. It's not a one on one copy, because we don't want to overcomplicate things. Some primary elements will be inspired by 7/11 but are adjusted to fit GTA:W. Ultimately it's a fictional company. Anyone is welcome to try and join us, new or experienced. We expect our members to follow the server rules and focus on character development rather than earning money, and we'll try to encourage realistic character portrayal. Even if you're not good at roleplaying you're welcome to join us, as long as you show that you're taking it seriously, and a will to learn. If you're interested in joining us, approach us In Character.

Although we roleplay being part of the fictional 24-Seven Corporation, we do not intend to roleplay being in charge of anyone who's not apart of our faction. The highest position within the faction is Area Manager, who'll be in charge of a select few stores only, that will be only the stores we own script-wise. The board of directors would be based in Dallas Texas, where the 24-Seven Corp. HQ would be located. We like to consider anyone who runs a 24/7 and is not part of our faction to be a franchiser, and the "NPC" headquarters in Texas would be the one in charge of them. Ofcourse, if store owners want to RP being an independent, local outlet of which they are fully in charge themselves we are not going to stop them. This is more for us to have a logical IC explanation for the many 24-7 outlets across the map of which we'll only run a select few.

 


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