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Show DILBERT Convenience Stores Conveniently Open, Packed BY HOLLY MULLEN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE To gauge just how busy the 7Eleven store at 3180 W. 5400 South was on Friday, consider this: Store clerk Ed Ortega made change for a $100 bill, no problem. ‘‘Normally we don’t have enough changein the till to do that, but today wesurecan,” Ortega said, as he counted out $88.67 cents in changefor his cus- tomer. There were three other clerks workingthe holidayshift at the Kearns convenience store, and still it was a challengeto keep up with the14 other customers in line. Christmas Day is the busiest day of the year for convenience stores, surpassing even — believe it or not — Super BowlSundayin customer volume, one store manager quipped. Byearly afternoon somestores werereporting an average of 160 customersan hour. With grocery and discount stores closed, and fast-food and most other restaurants locked up, the neighborhood quickie-martis the only place to find those holiday must-haves — batteries, eggs, bread, milk and what'sthis? Plastie storage bowls? “We've gottena lotofcalls today for plastic bowls, the storage kind with lids. I have no idea why,” said Marie Espinosa, assistant managerofthe Circle K Food Store at 6855 S. 1300 East in Salt the sacrifice. “What I can’t believe is the things people are eating. Christ- Just three miles from the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, the Circle K was serving even What do you think they're buying? Tons of hot dogs and na- Lake County. moreskiers than usualin the ear- WE MUST MAINTAIN A SENSE OF URGENCY. SPEED IS THEKEY. WE MUST BE FASTER THAN THE COMPETITION mas Day,you think of people eating turkey, ham, big dinners. chos.”” LOGICAL QUESTIONS DON'T MIX WITH DOES THAT MEAN You "LL SIGN THE STUFF THAT'S BEEN MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGES ON YOUR DESK FOR A MONTHT \ _ ____B5 www.dilbert.com scoltadama@eolcom TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH Saturday, December 26, 1998 Bes Instant Holiday Savings! ly morning and late afternoon. Coffee and hot-chocolate sales werebrisk. All over the Salt Lake Valley, employees at the major conve- nience-store chains — Circle K,7Eleven and Maverik Country Rate Plans as low as $19.95/m Stores — reported packed park- ing lots and lines snaking through Iara laroslWole (Ocaiatiat (Owner the narrowaisles. People on both sides of the counter were pleasingly patient. “Wehave a tradition ofplaying TtSe cards every Christmas after all the presents are opened. 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