7-Eleven Launches Low-Priced Wine Brand

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

And it's a new wine offering that provides us with our last word in business today: Big Gulp.

7-Eleven says it will now be offering a chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon, both produced here in California and selling for just under $4 a bottle. The convenience store says it hopes to appeal to customers coping with the economic downturn. It will be featuring the wines at some 15,000 7-Elevens where you can pair - well, the red at least - with a beef jerky Slim Jim.

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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

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