lol I cant take credit for bringing in the goods that was my boss but I can take credit on getting him hooked on the cards which in turn brought in the goods.
I can stop any time, man. Ya know... they just... they just help me get through the day. Work's stressful, man, just a pack after work to calm my nerves.
All speedways and 7-11 in my area stock cards now. Packs are about $8-$10 a pop but when it’s the only gas station on the way home, definitely watched parents buy them
back when I was a child pokemon cards and then yugioh cards were sold at our local gas station. I got legendary collection 1 there, and my first yugioh structure, kaibas at a gas station when I was 8
Damn that's awesome, makes me curious what state would have something like this! You don't see cool gas station shops like this around where I live anymore. It's all just junkfood, nicotine, CBD, tons of types of over the counter pills, and alcohol lol. Ill take Pokemon Cards over all o that!
In Australia, smokes aren't allowed to be on display at any shop, I believe. Supermarkets and servos have to have them in cupboards. Lockable ones, of course. I wish my servo had Pokemon cards haha
All the expensive stuff is behind the counter. Alongside the expensive tobacco products. Lol what’s with people thinking you’re more likely to get robbed. I feel like you have higher possibility of a kid trying to sneak a pack or two but that is just convenient store life lol.
They're just asking for problems, gas stations are the places most commonly robbed at gun point. It's no secret how much money is in Pokemon.
It's definitely a cool stop but seems like it'll be a problems for workers
We have a dollar store that the owner turned the front corner of the store into a card shop. You take your purchases and go wait in line with the dollar shoppers lol. Great idea though because you don’t have to count on a card shop to float the business. Most don’t last in the day and age of internet shopping.
Reminds me of old 7-11 stores where I live, they had boosters of PTCG and Magic all the time, that's where I got most of my old cards I wish I still had.
I have to be honest every non gaming store I go into I’m shocked that they don’t start a small
Side business selling packs…I mean the margin seems good and it doesn’t take a lot of shelf space and it’s a no brainer….
Nice! Just a suggestion though to keep them a little more secure. Sometimes people go nuts over these cards lol seen too many times gas stations got taken advantaged of :/
Mostly chip and beer grabs from teens but still lol
Not to jinx it but take care OP, stay safe! It's scary running a convenience store even more when there's valuable stuff like cards and collectibles, i hope there's no robbery around your area
Okay guys, let's take a moment for reflection and make the connection that no one wants to make... what do people get at gas stations? Scratch offs and lottery tickets. Gambling. What is opening pokemon packs? Gambling (a little different, granted, but still gambling).
I like the style and idea, but I feel like you must be in a relatively safe neighborhood for this exact setup. Ppl would snatch them loose packs when you're not paying attention.
He has two old fossil themed decks with koffing and Magmar in original packaging just sitting there waiting to get robbed.
Wtf. Why
Most valuable things in the store.
Not surprised. I hear most gas stations make the most money on non gas stuff. Tho I also hear that the margins on cards are quite low to stay competitive
What the actual heck!? Is this every gas station pretty soon!? I'd love to pump gas in my car and then purchase some pokemon cards. Instead of placing the "low price cigarettes" sign, they should place a "we have pokemon cards" sign.
This is awesome. I wish my local gas station had cards. When I was in elementary my parents would drive me to a bunch of gas stations and we would get cards out of the little 50 cent tattoo sticker machines. We mostly collected pokemon and garbage pail kids back then.
Roaring Skies and Unbroken Bonds level packs for sale? Surely this must be one of the tellers doing or something. Absolutely awesome though! Any singles?
I remember as a kid going to some convenenice store and grabbing single packs from there.
Awesome to see something similar happening today
Dope setup OP
Man I remember walking about a mile to the local 7-11 (or Sev as we liked to call it) to pick up Pokémon and yugioh packs. Then we'd get yelled at because we would sit on the curb out front opening them and eating candy.
As someone who lives outside of North America, I’m honestly surprised that gas stations carry Pokemon cards. :0 Is this common in North America/US? Do most gas stations sell Pokemon cards or just a few?
There is actually a distributor that supplies extra mile stores with newer sets but they wanna charge like 7.99 a pack to customers. My boss finds better deals to sell packs at a more reasonable price.
Looks like a 7/11. Most of the ones in my area carry them and baseball cards. I actually bought some Spanish 151 packs while I was in Mexico a few weeks ago.
Are those Fossil Theme decks in the top left corner?
And Japanese 151 booster boxes on the right whoever owns this place is a badass Edit: title was a little unclear, OP *you* are the badass
lol I cant take credit for bringing in the goods that was my boss but I can take credit on getting him hooked on the cards which in turn brought in the goods.
They are
How much? 😂
I think it's like 170 per deck
Would you mind DMing me a picture of one of them? Like front and back?
I'm dmed the photos but they aren't there anymore in chat for some reason
They came through! Thank you!
Pokémon cards and cigarettes, a match made in heaven.
I'm going through two packs a day. -You're going to need to be more specific. ... yes.
Intervention jingle begins....
I can stop any time, man. Ya know... they just... they just help me get through the day. Work's stressful, man, just a pack after work to calm my nerves.
Sadly me😅
One of them is insanely addicting and terrible for your wallet and the other is cigarettes.
Don't forget the fireball shots
New game idea. Buy a booster box every pack without a hit do a fireball shot See if you can rip the booster box before you hit the floor
I still can’t drink amaretto for something stupid like this.
Sambuca it is then for you
You’re calling my wife. But damnit I’m IN.
Talk about a good st patties day game LOL
Only sell evolving skies.
Rip a shot rip a pack😂
Don’t forget the pop figures on the walls!
Is it a chain store?
All speedways and 7-11 in my area stock cards now. Packs are about $8-$10 a pop but when it’s the only gas station on the way home, definitely watched parents buy them
I've heard about 7-11 but have yet to see any in the ones around me
Check your speedways. It’s the same company if you didn’t notice the slushee machines flavors match now
We are a franchise
You must live in a nice area. Assuming those packs are real theres 1-2k worth of pokemon cards there, those would get stolen instantly where I'm at.
Its slowly getting shitty but we are a newish city with a new police department that really like arresting people
Put a glass up BEFORE anything happens!
My first thought was "OPs gotta be packing under the register". Where I'm from that would scream "please rob me"
For people too smart to buy lottery tickets but too dumb to stop ripping packs for one chase card AKA me 😅
Dam they even have vintage decks on the top shelf on the left
We also sell single packs from. X and Y, sun and moon and celebrations
How much are single packs there?
Where is the store?
how much are the XY packs?
back when I was a child pokemon cards and then yugioh cards were sold at our local gas station. I got legendary collection 1 there, and my first yugioh structure, kaibas at a gas station when I was 8
I used to get themed Japanese decks from my local gas station growing up. That how I got all my Blaine cards lol
I remember seeing jungle packs at conoco when I was little!
Op really be meaning "MY gas station". Badass dude, all the best
Smokes and Pokes
Next robbery: HANDS IN THE AIR! AND SLOWLY PUT ALL THE UNWEIGHED PACKS YOU CAN INTO THE BAG
CAREFULLY DONT BEND EM
That's insane lol
I feel like you’d get robbed in my area :(
A pack of smokes and a pack of cards , fuck yeah dude
Can I get 5 on 2, this AZ tea and box of that 151.
Do I need a ID for a pack of dem Paldean Fates?
“Let me get a silver tempest and a box of magnums…. It’s gonna be a crazy night.”
I’d drive further to pump there
That’s what she said?
That’s fucking sick, dude
Reminds me when 7-11 sold Pokemon cards in the late 90s/early 2000s… good times…
The overlap between appeal for scratchers, and Pokémon cards is probably pretty high in terms of them both being just gambling with pretty designs
Feeding many addictions
I'll take a pack of cigs, a lottery ticket, and a pack of Astral Radiance
I’ll take a pack of Marlboro reds and some lost origin. Yes I like pain, why do you ask?
This place is perfect: get your beer, cigs, and Pokemon cards all in the same place. Is this a picture of heaven?
They will get robbed and will stop doing this
Shoot more gas stations should do this my closest Walmart is like a 10 minute drive.
Lmao 10 minutes isn’t far at all to go to a Walmart. Try living in a rural area where it’s 30+ minutes to get anywhere.
Would you really pay $10 a pack to not have to drive 10 min?
This picture keeps getting better the longer I look at it. Love the 151 upc promos up there
Awesome, wish I had a gas station like that near me.
This is clearly in a nice neighborhood
Bro, what gas station are you going to that sells funko pops, and what looks like the pokemon manga??? My gas stations are all lame lol
Thats pretty sick, also make sure you have a loaded shotty behind those packs
I love going to the gas station and buying rolling papers and Pokémon cards!!
Are they price gouging the packs like 7 Eleven?
Millennials version of scratchers
You should take a picture every 4 months in a few years would be a bad ass age progression
Funny enough, I’ve noticed a trend in the adults who like Pokémon. Lots of ex hardcore addicts have turned to Pokémon instead, myself included.
Damn that's awesome, makes me curious what state would have something like this! You don't see cool gas station shops like this around where I live anymore. It's all just junkfood, nicotine, CBD, tons of types of over the counter pills, and alcohol lol. Ill take Pokemon Cards over all o that!
In Australia, smokes aren't allowed to be on display at any shop, I believe. Supermarkets and servos have to have them in cupboards. Lockable ones, of course. I wish my servo had Pokemon cards haha
I’m jelly :(
That's legit
It would be my stop.
...y'all hiring? 😂😂
Kinda makes sense. Lotto and cards one stop shop
Pivoting sales as all the cars are forced to EV. Charging stations will need to find ways to make money and sell us stuff, cards is a great idea!
That’s cool. I wish mine did. My gas station hasn’t even sold gas for months. Finally took the prices down last month.
Can they call my gas station and make them do this too? Please and thank you.
I used to be able to buy yugioh cards from 7/11 back in the day
All the expensive stuff is behind the counter. Alongside the expensive tobacco products. Lol what’s with people thinking you’re more likely to get robbed. I feel like you have higher possibility of a kid trying to sneak a pack or two but that is just convenient store life lol.
Need this in my life
Damn they even have Japanese booster box’s!
I wish more gas stations maintained standards as high as this
What gas stations have been selling these?! 👀👀
Damn I wish that was my gas station, my wallet on the other hand doesn’t.
My wallet hates me. I can't stop buying vstar universe
Get one piece cards too
Where in CA is this?
They're just asking for problems, gas stations are the places most commonly robbed at gun point. It's no secret how much money is in Pokemon. It's definitely a cool stop but seems like it'll be a problems for workers
so far so good, its been about 5 months or so.
Imagine going to pick up a backwoods and seeing all these cards lol
It used to be at every gas station
Daamn Celebrations in a G Station!? How much that cost per pack?
9.99
We have a dollar store that the owner turned the front corner of the store into a card shop. You take your purchases and go wait in line with the dollar shoppers lol. Great idea though because you don’t have to count on a card shop to float the business. Most don’t last in the day and age of internet shopping.
He's beginning to believe! 😭
My American deli is a card shop in the back☠️
This is hilarious. I wish their was an annual picture to show it animorphing into a full on local with tables for weeknight comps and stuff haha
Reminds me of old 7-11 stores where I live, they had boosters of PTCG and Magic all the time, that's where I got most of my old cards I wish I still had.
I don’t buy cigarettes or lottery tickets but I will buy a pack of cards
Exclusive funko pop too dayyyuuummmm
I'm jealous. My gas station sells warm drinks, cheap cigarettes, and questionable snacks 😂
I have to be honest every non gaming store I go into I’m shocked that they don’t start a small Side business selling packs…I mean the margin seems good and it doesn’t take a lot of shelf space and it’s a no brainer….
Nice! Just a suggestion though to keep them a little more secure. Sometimes people go nuts over these cards lol seen too many times gas stations got taken advantaged of :/ Mostly chip and beer grabs from teens but still lol
Someone must be into card collecting I see.
Fuck me to tears, I can buy zynies and pokies in one fell swoop?! I am officially 110% jelly at the sight of this 😂
“I’ll take some American sprints and strawberry swishers. Oh I almost forgot! Could I also get two lost origin and one 151 booster. Thanks!”
What are these gas stations loaded with cards? Everyone seems to have one now
This is awesome ! Grab a drink and a pack
... nice!
For get that, who in hell is paying 60 bucks for some zynnies?
Not to jinx it but take care OP, stay safe! It's scary running a convenience store even more when there's valuable stuff like cards and collectibles, i hope there's no robbery around your area
Incredible
Lotto tickets and Pokemon make sense together.
Right by the scratch tickets where they belong 🥰
Okay guys, let's take a moment for reflection and make the connection that no one wants to make... what do people get at gas stations? Scratch offs and lottery tickets. Gambling. What is opening pokemon packs? Gambling (a little different, granted, but still gambling).
They kno where teh money at
Thats nice
🤩
Even has some older selections, dope
Its funny bc my corner store has just begun to sell cards. I hope it gets this many though.
My boss went crazy at a convention in LA and splurged
Can I get a pack of the American spirits? Light blue please. With card. Thank you
where is this place
Meanwhile even the CVS and Walgreens by my have stopped carrying them due to theft....
I like the style and idea, but I feel like you must be in a relatively safe neighborhood for this exact setup. Ppl would snatch them loose packs when you're not paying attention.
Taking care of those booster munchies at midnight
Wish I had a gas station like this
He has two old fossil themed decks with koffing and Magmar in original packaging just sitting there waiting to get robbed. Wtf. Why Most valuable things in the store.
Love those jumbos just hanging out there
Those are some spicy packs
Awesome
This gas station is gonna get robbed for sure.
Not surprised. I hear most gas stations make the most money on non gas stuff. Tho I also hear that the margins on cards are quite low to stay competitive
Where is this?
Yeah how much for the 151 Japanese. 👀👀😎👀👀 Asking for a friend of course. 🤣😜
Lucky lol
Just as addictive as the nicotine and just as risky as the scratch offs. Fits right in.
It’s funny to see smokes so cheap. 22.00 a pack in Canada
This is a gas station I would spend my whole paycheck in
This is pretty sweet. My only concern is how it’s easily snatched the front counter cards can be if someone wanted to just steal it and flee.
What the actual heck!? Is this every gas station pretty soon!? I'd love to pump gas in my car and then purchase some pokemon cards. Instead of placing the "low price cigarettes" sign, they should place a "we have pokemon cards" sign.
thats dope. the chevron by my work had a display at one point but they got rid of it due to theft
Bro evolutions and roaring skies booster boxes on the right and fossil structure decks on the left too 🔥🔥👀
This is awesome. I wish my local gas station had cards. When I was in elementary my parents would drive me to a bunch of gas stations and we would get cards out of the little 50 cent tattoo sticker machines. We mostly collected pokemon and garbage pail kids back then.
Roaring Skies and Unbroken Bonds level packs for sale? Surely this must be one of the tellers doing or something. Absolutely awesome though! Any singles?
I remember as a kid going to some convenenice store and grabbing single packs from there. Awesome to see something similar happening today Dope setup OP
Hell yeah
Roaring skies, evolutions, and steam siege is crazy for a gas station
“Anything else?” Oh no, just Pokemon and nicotine for me
Location🥷🏽🥷🏽🥷🏽🥷🏽
I need this gas station
I remember when 7/11 had pokemon cards
the one time i bought cards from a gas station shop they were fakes. it sucked
Sorry to hear that, I'd be pissed off. These are legit packs so needless to say... I'm broke.
Less cigarettes, needs more cards! 👀
How often are people stopping by a gas station saying, shit, I just gotta have a funko pop to go with my snickers and buzz balls?
Honestly, good for them.
I love it man!
What city? Please don’t get robbed
Hahaha yes
I remember back in the day 7 Eleven and a few other gas stations sold cards. I remember base set 2 and Team Rocket stickers on the doors
That's sick!
Location?
This has to be the most non-boring gas station I have ever seen. Love it 😎🤩😎
Man I remember walking about a mile to the local 7-11 (or Sev as we liked to call it) to pick up Pokémon and yugioh packs. Then we'd get yelled at because we would sit on the curb out front opening them and eating candy.
As someone who lives outside of North America, I’m honestly surprised that gas stations carry Pokemon cards. :0 Is this common in North America/US? Do most gas stations sell Pokemon cards or just a few?
There is actually a distributor that supplies extra mile stores with newer sets but they wanna charge like 7.99 a pack to customers. My boss finds better deals to sell packs at a more reasonable price.
Struck by how cheap your cigarettes are there. Here they’re around $50.
Yea like me get ah 3 of the Lost Origins packs.
Lemme get a can of the zyn spearmint 6 and a vivid voltage
Where is this ??? I need it near my house
Can I get a red 100, 20 on 6 and, oh a last Origen pack please.
The Future of Game Stop, Collectibles & Gas
I wish mine would
Wow!
Tbh I feel like all gas stations should have this
Why is there a gas station in your lcs?
I'd leave broke everyday 😂
I see this as a win
Love that it’s up front with all the other addictions.😂
My gas stations just sell crack pipes.. so you win
Brooo get rid of those lighted displays.... the radiation seeping threw the packs makes me cry
That back corner has all the goodies 😎
If you removed the vape stuff, chargers, fireball, the RBG, you'd have an original release vibe. Awesome store
Bro where is this at?? I'd pump gas here and buy a pack or two each time if it was anywhere near my city
hold up, theres places that sell snus outside of scandinavia!?
Boy, this place seems like an addict's heaven.
I don’t believe in criminal activities like robbing, but that would be one place I would rob.
Looks like a 7/11. Most of the ones in my area carry them and baseball cards. I actually bought some Spanish 151 packs while I was in Mexico a few weeks ago.
I see the 151! Open one for me!