10 Jul
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UPDATE: We’re STILL Number 1 - Slurpee Capital of the World!!!
Was the last 7-11 before Greg’s house, back in the 1980s Originally uploaded by Wade Rockett
After reading 7-eleven.com’s “81st Birthday Press Release“, I noticed something rather disturbing…. It’s true Winnipeg, we’ve lost our throne as “SLURPEE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”
From 7-eleven.com:
Every day is Slurpee Day in Kennewick, Wash., recently crowned the new Slurpee capital of the world, but on Free Slurpee Day, 7-Eleven Franchisee Don Marriotto expects his store to be swamped. “Even though we will be giving away free Slurpee drinks on 7-Eleven Day, July 11 also will be our biggest Slurpee sales day of the year,” he said. “We will have customers lined up outside waiting to get in the store and to the Slurpee machine to create their favorite frozen concoction.”
Marriotto’s number-one Slurpee-selling store offers 12 different flavors of the popular beverage, and he expects to have the local ABC-TV affiliate broadcasting from their store that birthday morning.
A very sad day indeed 
I’m picking up a large G-Force Slurpee on the way home!! Watch out Kennewick, Wash., we’re coming back with a vengeance!!
UPDATE 07/10/08: We’re STILL Number 1!!! Hit Read more for the update!
UPDATE July 9, 2008 Ken:
Ace Burpee’s Blog has reported that though 7-eleven.com states that Kennewick Wash. has been crowned the new Slurpee Capital of the World, there is something fishy about the statement. Click here to read his analysis on the story.
Kennewick only has a population of approx. 55,000 and one 7-eleven… making their 7-eleven the busiest 7-eleven in North America. So Winnipeg may still have the most Slurpee sales in the WORLD, but it looks like they want to move their marketing campaign to Kennewick Wash. who has the busiest 7-eleven in North America which they have crowned the new Slurpee Capital of the World. I assume that there will be an official statement or crowing this Friday, perhaps 7-eleven will shed some light for us.
UPDATE July 9, 2008 #2 Ken:
Steve Adams made a call to the 7-11 in Kennewick this morning and the owner says that they ARE the new Slurpee capital of the world and they have a banner coming up already that reads “MOVE OVER MANITOBA!” hahaha
Well just recently, Steve Adams made another phone call to the 7-11 head office here in Winnipeg. They assured us that our sales are WAY in front and we have 5 stores in Winnipeg alone that have sold more Slurpees than Kennewick. Winnipeg Head Office assures us that the title is still safe!!
I guess we have to wait and see what happens. The Crown is usually officially announced around the 7/11 anniversary day.
UPDATE July 10, 2008 CheryL: We’re STILL Number 1!!!
For the past couple days, there has been some disturbing rumors floating around that Winnipeg has lost its title as “Slurpee Capital of the World.”
Apparently, the small city of Kennewick, Washington has taken our title, but it has been confirmed that Winnipeg is STILL the Slurpee Capital of the World!
It is Winnipeg’s NINTH consecutive year receiving this honor, and tomorrow, Winnipeg will officially be named the market with the highest annual sales and consumption on the planet!!
Congratulations Winnipeg =)
UPDATE July 10, 2008 Huy: Move Over Manitoba ?!?!?!?!
Steve Adams from Hot 103 recently stepped out and called the Don “Slurpee King” Mariotto from Kennewick to confront him about thier recent theft of our proud title. Don also will be hanging a banner that will say “Move Over Manitoba” to rub it in. The conversation is posted on Ace Burpee’s Blog and the direct link is below. Seems this competition just got a little hotter, stay tuned for updates.
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Posted by Ken on July 8, 2008 at 4:41 pm
G-Force + Nachos + Hot Dog for the win!!!
Unless I’m at the Mountain and McPhillips 7-11.. then G-Force + Potato Wedges + Pizza Poppers for the win!!!
Posted by aidz on July 8, 2008 at 4:49 pm
its a black day for all..thanks alot ken..u ruined everyones day!! u should be ashamed of yourself hahha
Posted by Stacey on July 8, 2008 at 4:51 pm
It’s totally because I stopped buying slurpees 6 years ago.
Posted by m.solano on July 8, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Yo Ken… G-Force is good but BLUE SHOCK owns imho!!!
It comes only once a year since 2002 (I think) and comes solely in the summertime. Everytime I see it being sold, I know summer has definitely arrived!
I almost never drink slurpees because I think most of them are too sweet but BLUE SHOCK is just right and the flavor is unreal! F@CKING AWESOME, I TELL YOU. Give it try and tell me what you think…
PS. YES. IT IS A SAD DAY IN WINNIPEG. I think I saw a billboard on Portage saying we were the slurpee capital for 9 years running… WE ONLY NEEDED 1 YEAR TO OWN THE DEACADE! A SAD DAY INDEED!
Posted by VinDiesel on July 9, 2008 at 10:29 am
That 7-11 on Mountain & McPhillips is the shit, wings, pizza poppers, wedges, G-Force slurpees, how can you go wrong?
Posted by Ken on July 9, 2008 at 11:39 am
i got to try this raved about BLUE SHOCK slurpee now!! Perhaps tomorrow on free slurpee day!! hehehe
Posted by jaysid on July 9, 2008 at 11:59 am
umm… i thought free slurpee day was on friday
Posted by Ken on July 9, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Damn. i thought it was Thursday already. thanks for the wake up Jaysid.
Yes, free slurpee day is on Friday.
Posted by Ken on July 9, 2008 at 1:50 pm
its pretty funny what has transpired on Hot 103 from this post!!
Steve Adams made a call to the 7-11 in Kennewick this morning and the owner says that they ARE the new Slurpee capital of the world and they have a banner coming up already that reads “MOVE OVER MANITOBA!” hahaha
Well just recently, Steve Adams made another phone call to the 7-11 head office here in Winnipeg. They assured us that our sales are WAY in front and we have 5 stores in Winnipeg alone that have sold more Slurpees than Kennewick. Winnipeg Head Office assures us that the title is still safe!!
I guess we have to wait and see what happens. The Crown is usually officially announced around the 7/11 anniversary day.
Posted by m.solano on July 9, 2008 at 2:50 pm
nice post Ken! i’m pretty confident that the title still stands…
Don’t you think Winnipeg would’ve been warned if some city was REMOTELY close to taking the title? Or maybe this whole slurpee scare was just a warning all along?! my $0.02…
I think everyone’s spirits are back up and the HOPE IS STILL ALIVE!
*heads to 7-11*
Posted by CameronH on July 10, 2008 at 5:23 am
The Kenwick claim is half-baked Winnipeg is still the Slurpee Capital of the World and we’re gonna keep it that way
Posted by SlurpeeKing on July 10, 2008 at 5:27 am
It appears we have a dispute between Kennewick and Winnipeg over which city is the Slurpee Capital of the world. The 7-Eleven in Kennewick, Winnepeg has conceded, has the highest Slurpee dollar sales total in all the world. Four 7-Elevens in Winnepeg sell more slurpee cups than the Kennewick 7-Eleven and 6 sell fewer. It is not clear whether the average per store cup sales in Winnipeg is higher than the cup sales of the Kennewick 7-Eleven. What is clear, is that the Kennewick 7-Eleven sells more ounces of Slurpee than any store in Winnipeg and that the residents of Kennewick drink more ounces of Slurpee per capita than the residents of Winnepeg. It sounds to me like Kennewick IS King, Move over Manitoba.
Posted by Lyndon on July 10, 2008 at 9:18 am
.. oh no he just didn’t.. IS THIS DON FROM KENNEWICK!?
Posted by johni on July 10, 2008 at 11:08 am
winnipeg is still slurpee capitol? maybe we should get a banner
and maybe it should say :
‘haha Kennewick wasted money on a useless ‘Move Over Manitoba banner’ haha’
Posted by aidz on July 10, 2008 at 12:10 pm
“Posted by johni on July 10, 2008 at 11:08 am
winnipeg is still slurpee capitol? maybe we should get a banner
and maybe it should say :
‘haha Kennewick wasted money on a useless ‘Move Over Manitoba banner’ haha’ ”
AHAHAHAHA…hilarious comment…
we better have won the title..i just bought 2956 slurpees yesterday haha
Posted by alicjabuch on July 10, 2008 at 9:17 pm
WOOT TOMORROW IS FREE SLURPEE DAY!
srsly..
July - month 7
11
7/11
HA.
Posted by SlurpeeKing on July 11, 2008 at 1:46 am
Yes, this is Don from Kennewick. . .the banner is going up because as of today, Kennwick has the highest average cup sales per store for 2008. Slurp up or the title belongs to Kennewick for 2008. We are getting a crew together to come and get that beautiful billboard.
But beware, the Kennewick store will be the first store in the world with 18 Slurpee flavors later this month. Seriously, in January 2007 I learned of the degree of Slurpee devotion in Winnipeg and set about learning how it came to be. Using Winnipeg as the blueprint, we tried to develop the same devotion in Kennewick. Now Kennewick and Winnipeg should be sister cities.
Posted by Ken on July 11, 2008 at 6:19 am
Congratulations on your accomplishments Don!! Great to hear that Kennewick is bringing some new fierce competition between the Winnipeg - Calgary rivalry we’ve been having for the Slurpee title!
But rest assure, Winnipeger’s wont let it go so easy and you can guarantee that 2008 will be another huge Slurpee year for Winnipeg!
Posted by WINNIPEGTRUESLURPEECAPITAL on July 25, 2008 at 5:44 pm
SO are we the Slurpee Capital, or are we not?
clearly we are… Don needs to make his weak arguments to try and support his claim that Kennewick is in the lead.
Winnipeg legitimitely has more sales, more sales means more money means more government profit means happy employers, manufacturers, companys etc. Thus more sales means we are The Capital… and thats great that Kennewick has S0oo0o0 many people per capita drinking slurpees, I don’t think his banner will hang so proudly and bring laughter to his heart when his cheery city becomes the diabetes district of America.. way to go Don, poison your nation, and try to sleep at night knowing that your city is becoming diseased and we still hold the title…
thank you and goodnight! - Canadian for Life
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Posted by King Au on July 26, 2008 at 4:29 am
i think Don from Kennewick needs to learn how to spell “Winnipeg” and show some respect to the slurpee capital of the world haha
Posted by WINNIPEGTRUESLURPEECAPITAL on July 30, 2008 at 5:06 pm
hahahah NO KIDDING
Posted by SlurpeeKing on August 18, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Winnipeg did great in July Slurpee sales. During July, if the best Slurpee store in Winnipeg had 55% more in Slurpee sales dollars and 30% more cups sold they would have tied what Kennewick did in July. Kennewick, Slurpee Capital of the World.
I don’t want all you Canadians hanging out in cold dark rooms grieving the loss of the title. Get a Slurpee go someplace fun and enjoy!