7-Eleven said 645 stores in fiscal 2026. We can name 53, and by our math on the published breakdowns, a third to half of the 645 are conversions, not closures
7-Eleven's parent announced in April that 645 North American stores would close in fiscal 2026, which runs from March 1, 2026 to February 28, 2027. That number is not 645 closures. Two published breakdowns of the 645 put between 230 and 350 of those sites as conversions to wholesale rather than closings; that range is our reading of the two. We can name 53 sites, in 20 states and Washington, DC. Seventeen are closures a news source confirms. The other 36 were removed from 7-Eleven's own store locator, which tells us a store is gone from the chain's map, not whether it closed or converted.
What "645" means
The number is real, and it is the company's. The chain announced in April that 645 stores would be closed in the 2026 fiscal year, and it plans to open 205 new stores in the same period, larger and more focused on food.
As Cronista reported, "close" covers two different things here. In July, two published breakdowns of the 645 appeared, and they do not agree:
| Published | Shut for good | Converted to wholesale | Attributed to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inc., July 15 | 295 (our sum: 200 for underperformance plus 95 for non-performance reasons such as franchise terminations) | 350 | A 7-Eleven spokesperson, via C-Store Dive |
| Cronista, July 15 | 415 | 230 | Seven & i Holdings |
Either way, a large share of the 645 sites move to a wholesale arrangement. They leave the 7-Eleven store count without the building going dark. By our arithmetic on the two breakdowns, between 295 and 415 are closures in the usual sense, and conversions are 36% to 54% of the 645. We print both breakdowns because we cannot tell from the sources which one is current.
In its first quarter, Seven & i said it closed 45 underperforming stores and opened 30, Inc. reported.
The 17 closures a news source confirms
| When, as stated | Where | Street | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of April | Manchester, NH | Webster Street | Union Leader |
| April 30 | Charlotte Hall, MD | Three Notch Road | Southern Maryland News Net |
| May 5 (last day, per an employee) | Seaside, CA | Fremont Boulevard | KSBW |
| May 6 | Silver Spring, MD | Georgia Avenue | The MoCo Show |
| Not stated | Penacook, NH | Village Street | Syndicated report on MSN; also on Inc.'s list |
| By May 21 | Maplewood, NJ | Springfield Avenue | Village Green |
| July 28 | Evanston, IL | Dodge Avenue | Evanston RoundTable |
| Closed by mid-July | Washington, DC | Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Miami, FL | NW 79th Street | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Orlando, FL | South Orange Blossom Trail | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Elkhart, IN | State Road 19 | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | South Portland, ME | Main Street | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Roseville, MI | Gratiot Avenue | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Nashua, NH | Spit Brook Road | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | North Conway, NH | White Mountain Highway | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Portland, OR | SE Milwaukie Avenue | Inc. |
| Closed by mid-July | Providence, RI | Cranston Street | Inc. |
Inc. published its list on July 15. It also included the Silver Spring, Manchester, Penacook and Maplewood stores. 7-Eleven has not released a list of its own.
The 36 removed from 7-Eleven's own store locator
These stores dropped out of 7-Eleven's own store locator in our weekly checks. None of them has a closing date, and none has been confirmed closed by a news source. Some may be closed. Some may be among the wholesale conversions, which also leave the store list. Our checks noticed 19 of them in mid-August and 17 in October.
| State | City | Street |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Carson | South Avalon Boulevard |
| CA | Costa Mesa | Bristol Street |
| CA | San Jose | Branham Lane |
| CA | San Leandro | East 14th Street |
| CA | Santa Clara | Washington Street |
| CO | Aurora | East Colfax Avenue |
| CO | Aurora | East 6th Avenue |
| CO | Aurora | Peoria Street |
| CO | Colorado Springs | Shasta Drive |
| CO | Frisco | North Summit Boulevard |
| DE | Wilmington | Governor Printz Boulevard |
| FL | Fort Lauderdale | NW 31st Avenue |
| FL | Orlando | South Orange Blossom Trail (a different store from the one on Inc.'s list) |
| FL | Pompano Beach | East Atlantic Boulevard |
| FL | Winter Garden | Western Way |
| IL | Glendale Heights | Bloomingdale Road |
| IL | Moline | 39th Avenue Drive |
| MA | Dorchester (Boston) | Dorchester Avenue |
| MI | Troy | John R Road |
| MI | Walled Lake | East West Maple Road |
| NC | Greensboro | West Market Street |
| NC | Kannapolis | West C Street |
| NH | Londonderry | Nashua Road |
| NJ | Fair Lawn | Broadway |
| NJ | Fort Lee | Bergen Boulevard |
| NJ | Northfield | New Road |
| NY | Deer Park | Bay Shore Road |
| NY | North Babylon | Bay Shore Road |
| OH | Toledo | Upton Avenue |
| PA | Aliquippa | Brodhead Road |
| PA | Pittsburgh | Mount Royal Boulevard |
| VA | Franklin | Carrsville Highway |
| VA | Hampton | North Armistead Avenue |
| VA | Hampton | Aberdeen Road |
| VA | Richmond | West Broad Street |
| WA | Toppenish | West 1st Avenue |
By state
| State | News-confirmed closures | Removed from the store locator | Named sites |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Florida | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Colorado | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| New Hampshire | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| New Jersey | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Virginia | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Illinois | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Michigan | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Maryland | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| New York | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| North Carolina | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Pennsylvania | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Delaware | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Indiana | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Maine | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Massachusetts | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ohio | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Oregon | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Washington | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Washington, DC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 17 | 36 | 53 |
Why: underperforming stores, softer spending and a parent remaking itself
The sources give three reasons, and they are the company's.
Store performance. In the Inc. breakdown, 200 stores shut for underperformance. Seaside's local station reported that 7-Eleven said the closures were "in an effort to improve margins." In Cronista's account, the plan focuses the network on higher-performing locations.
Customers buying less. The company's earnings report, quoted by the Union Leader, said: "In North America, although the economy remained robust, personal consumption also began to soften, particularly among low-income households, as inflation continued to weigh on spending." On the April 9 earnings call, CEO Steve Dacus pointed at fuel: "In North America, we are seeing continued declines in fuel volumes and increased volatility in oil prices," the Times Union reported.
The parent's restructuring. Seven & i Holdings is reshaping the chain as it looks to hold an initial public offering in 2027, the Times Union reported. One industry voice Inc. quoted, Poppi co-founder Stephen Ellsworth, called the wholesale conversions a way to "take a losing asset and turn it into a profit center instead of writing it off completely." In Maplewood, NJ, the closing store was the company's own: the mayor said the store was closing "as part of a corporate downsizing," and that the town's other two 7-Elevens are "franchise owned and not subject to the corporate downsizing."
Not every store on the list gave the program as its reason. Charlotte Hall gave no reason. KSBW said it was unclear whether the Seaside store was part of the wider program.
Verdict: a stated company program, not a trend we inferred
This is a measured program, and the company did the measuring. 7-Eleven announced the 645, and its own breakdowns say what part is closures and what part is conversions. We did not infer it from scattered closings.
It is also a repeating pattern, by the sources' account. The MoCo Show reported that fiscal 2026 is expected to be the fifth consecutive year in which more 7-Eleven stores close than open. That baseline is theirs, not ours.
What our count adds is where. Fifty-three are the sites we can name so far: the company has not published a list, and a store that converts to wholesale may never make the news.
What we counted, and what we left out
Counted: 53 named sites, each a 7-Eleven location with a street. Seventeen are closures a news source confirms. Thirty-six are stores that dropped out of 7-Eleven's own store locator in our weekly checks. A locator removal has no closing date, and we do not call it a closure until a news source or a check of the storefront confirms it.
Left out: seven records about the program as a whole, with no site, and one Patch list from 2025. One duplicate of the Silver Spring store. One Silver Spring store on Fenwick Lane, which closed in August 2025, before this fiscal year. Wholesale conversions are not closures, but we cannot tell them apart on the locator, which is why those 36 are labeled as removals.
What we cannot see: 7-Eleven has more than 13,000 U.S. locations, according to Inc. Inc.'s list says "this year," which may include January and February 2026, before the fiscal year began on March 1. The dates in the news table are the ones each source gives. Where a source gives a month or "by mid-July," that is what we print.
Records come from local news reporting, company statements and our weekly checks of 7-Eleven's store locator. This is a living page: as stores are confirmed closed or converted, we update the count and the changelog records it.
Updated: October 19, 2026
Changelog: October 19, 2026: first published with 53 named sites (17 news-confirmed closures, 36 store-locator removals) in 20 states and Washington, DC, from the 2026-10-17 edition.
Street names are from our records; house numbers are held for subscribers. The Store Closure Watch file for the week of October 17, 2026 holds 368 records. As of October 19, 2026.