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    'Simpsons' Fans To Step Into Their Wildest Convenience Store Fantasies

    By Seth, 3:08 PM on Mon Jul 2 2007, 5,013 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    As we first noted back in March, select 7-Eleven's across the country have been magically transformed over the weekend into Kwik-E-Mart's—part of an elaborate promotional tie-in for The Simpsons Movie. There's a Burbank location at the corners of Olive and Verdugo, where a Flickr user has lovingly documented all the WooHoo! Blue Vanilla Squishees and Sprinklicious donuts that will be gobbled up in the days to come by die-hard Simpsons fanatics who have long cursed their lack of yellow skin. LAist, meanwhile, has a photo of their resident Apu-alike, Golam, whose sunshiny smile belies his familiarity with armed-robbery protocol.

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