Non 24/7 Seven Eleven store

When i say the word, 7-11, what's your first thinking??

Slurpee?? Big Gulp?? 24 hours convenience store??

Or even perhaps, doraemon magnets??

No matter what, 7-11 has become a part of our lives that we can go for some snacks and drinks when we are hungry in the middle of the night...

Or so i thought...

Imagine my horror when the 7-11 store was closed while waiting for my buddy's wife coach to reach from her trip to Malaysia. It was around 2.30am in the morning, and my buddy wants to buy some drinks...


Found the opening hours of that 7-11 store quite amusing... 7-11... opens from 7am till 11pm...

Thank god it's state 7am to 11pm, and not this....

(edited photo)

But still the closure of the 7-11 store puzzles me. I known along that 7-11 are 24 hours convenience store. So, if there's opening hours, it could not be a convenience store at all right?

So i did a search on 7-11, and from this website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven, found several interesting facts...

Quoted from the wikipedia website...

"The company has its origins in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, USA, when an employee of Southland Ice Company started selling milk, eggs and bread from an ice dock...

Initially, these stores were open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m (arhhhh... so i see)

In 1962, 7-Eleven first experimented with a 24-hour schedule in Austin, Texas...

Singapore

The first 7-Eleven stores in Singapore were operated in 1983 with a franchise license under the Jardine Matheson Group. (I cannnot believe that i am older than the 7-11 stores in Singapore!!!)

All the 7-Eleven stores in Singapore operate round the clock, except for stores in Biopolis, hospitals, MRT Stations, Raffles Junior College, Singapore Management University and Nanyang Technological University, which have shorter operating hours."

Ohhhh.... okie... now i know... the 7-11 store i went to was at Bukit Gombak MRT station. And they are upholding the tradition of 7-11 opening hours...