Stripes Convenience Stores

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Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRetail (Convenience stores)
Founded1938 (1938)
HeadquartersCorpus Christi, Texas, United States
ProductsLaredo Taco Company
Café de la Casa
Revenue $ 5.8 billion (2012)
Parent7-Eleven
Websitewww.stripesstores.com

Stripes Stores is a chain of more than 700 convenience stores in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, headquartered in Corpus Christi, Texas and owned by 7-Eleven. Most locations are former Circle K and Town & Country Food Stores. Other convenience store brands they operate under include IceBox and Quick Stuff. It is one of the largest non-refining operators of convenience stores in the United States. Many stores offer Sunoco, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon, Phillips 66, Shell, Texaco, Valero, and unbranded fuel; most locations previously sold fuel under the CITGO name, when the chain was Circle K. More than 300 locations also feature the proprietary Laredo Taco Company brand of Mexican fast food, or Country Cookin’ branded fast food.