Stripes Stores is a chain of more than 700

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s in

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, and

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, headquartered in

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and owned by

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. Most locations are former

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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

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, Chevron,

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, Valero, and unbranded fuel; most locations previously sold fuel under the

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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.

History

In 2007, the company acquired the Town & Country Food Stores chain, and, in August 2009, it acquired 25 Quick Stuff convenience stores in Texas and Louisiana from Jack in the Box Inc. In August 2014, Stripes was acquired by Houston-based

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, the parent company of East Coast fuel brand

, when ETP bought Susser Holdings Corporation, which operated more than 580 stories at the time. In late 2017, all Stripes locations in Louisiana and parts of Texas were sold to

. 7-Eleven set out to buy all the Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma locations as well but could not get around a noncompete agreement with 7-Eleven franchises such as Delek US Holdings. However, 7-Eleven has since acquired the remaining Stripes locations following Delek terminating its franchising agreement and rebranding its stores as DK, with 7-Eleven remaining in those markets through Stripes (or

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for

El Paso, Texas El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...

stores). While Stripes is found throughout Texas and overlaps with Speedway in New Mexico and 7-Eleven in the

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, 7-Eleven is largely absent outside the Triangle despite being based in Irving, allowing 7-Eleven to have a presence in

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and the Texas Panhandle.

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