7-Eleven strips raunchy magazines from its shelves after a slew of complaints

Convenience giant 7-Eleven has stripped pornographic magazines from its shelves after a slew of complaints from a women’s lobby group, with franchise management revealing the new trend that led to the ban.

7-Eleven will no longer stock raunchy magazines.

Servo and retail giant 7-Eleven has pulled raunchy magazines from its shelves after a slew of complaints from a women’s rights advocacy group.

Collective Shout, which launched a campaign about a month ago calling on 7-Eleven to take action on Picture and People magazines, announced the convenience store chain has pulled the publications from its 700 outlets.

The advocacy group has lauded 7-Eleven for taking swift action, with director Coralie Alison saying she’s proud of the corporation for exercising its “social responsibility”.

Ms Alison said Collective Shout had spoken to female 7-Eleven workers who said they felt “uncomfortable” selling the magazines, which contained “full frontal nudity”.

She said tens of thousands of people backed the campaign as 7-Eleven stores had become a popular spot for teens.

Chain store @7ElevenAus boasts that it “supports the youth of Australia.”

While selling mags calling them “x rated Aussie teens” and “fresh flesh?”

Eroticising sexual predation of teen girls does not “support youth” it makes young women unsafe. #CSR https://t.co/CPOV7FSvmv pic.twitter.com/bs2aBprxFl

— Collective Shout (@CollectiveShout) September 3, 2019

“The magazines contained things such as ‘nip-slips and upskirting’ and in an age of #metoo and everything that’s been happening to protect women from sexual harassment — we found this to be unacceptable,” she said.

“We targeted the chain of stores because teens often go here for Slurpees, Krispy Kremes — it attracts the highest pool of teen foot traffic.”

Collective Shout announced on Wednesday that 7-Eleven chief executive Angus McKay had emailed it with the news his organisation had made a “stock recommendation change” once the nature of the magazines had been brought to its attention.

“I would acknowledge we should have been more across the nature of these magazines and taken action earlier,” Mr McKay reportedly said in the email.

Hi @7ElevenAus , are teens X-rated or are they your Slurpee and Krispy Kreme customers? You can't have it both ways. #StopSellingSexualHarassmenthttps://t.co/c9KbLbCfVy pic.twitter.com/54xJJgndZ1

— Collective Shout (@CollectiveShout) August 31, 2019

“That said, once the team were made aware of the material they acted and changed our recommended range quickly.

“I have personally written to all franchisees and store managers asking for the removal of these magazines.”

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Ms Alison said she was proud of 7-Eleven for moving quickly.

“They have exercised their corporate social responsibility and we hope other chains will follow suit,” she said.

He said each store in the network had been visited by a member of its operations team, who had been instructed to follow through with removal instructions as a priority.

7-Eleven has been contacted for comment.

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