OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Talley Ho 
, Playa la Ropa, Friday, November 16, 2018, 18:43 (2920 days ago)
For the last couple of weeks, the lot across from Trattoria de Gianni has been being cleared and now is almost there. We asked a man with blueprints in his hands what it was going to be and he said OXXO.
So, there will soon be one on Playa la Ropa.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by K&B , Friday, November 16, 2018, 19:40 (2920 days ago) @ Talley Ho
Is that good or bad?
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Talley Ho , Playa la Ropa, Friday, November 16, 2018, 20:08 (2920 days ago) @ K&B
It was simply posted as an informational item.
It's happening so "Good or Bad," doesn't apply.
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by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Friday, November 16, 2018, 20:21 (2920 days ago) @ Talley Ho
Oh boy! 7-Eleven comes to Playa La Ropa!
It sure has changed a lot from the days when the Alemán family had their little family-run convenience store with a couple of hammocks and Pepsi, no Coke, where the road ends at the beach, or years later when María & Felix had the only store across from my mother's old place above the parking lot. You could run a tab and pay when you had the money. You won't be doing THAT at Oxxo. I can remember when being able to get a cold Sangría Casera refresco at La Ropa was a big deal, along with pan de coco, and almost everything else you wanted you had to carry from town. Those were the days. Made you appreciate the simple pleasures. Now you can help Oxxo make profits for their shareholders instead of helping a local family make a living and put their children through school. What a world!
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Talley Ho , Playa la Ropa, Friday, November 16, 2018, 20:31 (2920 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Wish we had been here with you during that time, but we were experiencing it on South Caicos.....
Even now, with an OXXO, it's a wonderful place to be and live. We are SO lucky and so are you two.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Friday, November 16, 2018, 22:40 (2920 days ago) @ Talley Ho
i just hate to see any of that marvelous huerta desecrated and destroyed, especially for an Oxxo. But the folks out there will love it. Now you’ll be able to pay bills at Oxxo, send and receive money, buy a new charger cord for your phone, renew your mobile phone credit, get your beer & liquor, get your frozen pizza, get your morning coffee, get your drugs and condoms, even do some of your banking chores. They are amazing little stores with terrific refrigeration systems. And they all tend to be very similar no matter where they are. Of course, when their computer system goes down everything comes to a grinding halt (but they’ll let you just stand there in line anyway).
The beginning of a new chapter.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Friday, November 16, 2018, 23:05 (2920 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Oh, I forgot to mention one of the best things about Oxxo: they have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. 
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Craig AKA the cruise ship guy , Saturday, November 17, 2018, 08:00 (2920 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Don’t forget the OXXO roller hotdogs!
Seems like in this area OXXO are way more common than the family owned mini supers I go to in the Cabo area. Yeah OXXO has more stuff but instead of an owner helping you, there’s some teenager that could care less. Reminds me too much of back home but they are very convenient for all the Bimbo junk food that I want.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by timixtapa , Ixtapa, México, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 07:50 (2920 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Rob!!!!???? are you becoming nostalgic in your Autumn years? Rage against the Machine Rob! Oxxo stores are plastic and styrofoam garbage factories. Their parking lots convert into beer soaked tail gate parties and musica banda rave venues. They are a pox on the community and should be banished.
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Tim Sullivan
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 08:34 (2920 days ago) @ timixtapa
Rob!!!!???? are you becoming nostalgic in your Autumn years? Rage against the Machine Rob! Oxxo stores are plastic and styrofoam garbage factories. Their parking lots convert into beer soaked tail gate parties and musica banda rave venues. They are a pox on the community and should be banished.
I'm with you. I've watched several of my local friends with tienditas go out of business after an Oxxo opened up in the neighborhood. It's really been tough on a lot of local families having these stores pop up like mushrooms all over the place.
The only good thing Oxxo has done is stand up to the criminals who tried to extort them. Instead of paying derecho de piso they simply closed all their stores until the police gave the bad guys such a hard time they finally left Oxxo alone, though they still do a brisk business in their parking lots and environs because so many people go there.
But most of the folks who live and visit at La Ropa nowadays aren't the same caliber of folks who used to occupy La Ropa, folks who used to walk to the market most mornings to get their foodstuffs for the day. Many of us would sometimes make more than one trip a day to town on foot. Many of the current denizens will be driving their cars and motonetas to Oxxo from the other end of the huerta.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Gringo Viejo , Kansas/Zihuatanejo, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 09:35 (2920 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Reminds of the early WalMrt days when your neighbors said, "Dn't shop that frigging Walmart, they are driving the little guy out of business".
And when you went to the newly opened WalMart, guess who you saw there-your neighbors.
Ah, the good old days when you didn't have the internet or computers or cellphones-maybe no phone at all. I could go on and on and yet, the "good old days" were all that good after all.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by K&B , Saturday, November 17, 2018, 11:49 (2919 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
I am assuming that the decision to build this store had something to do with the new road being opened. Has traffic picked up on la Ropa road?
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Gringo Viejo , Kansas/Zihuatanejo, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 09:42 (2920 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
And while I think of it, how many stop and buy a snack or soft drink froom the guy without legs just up the hill and across the street from Casa Que Ve Al Mar?
The cloning of America (even the World) has happened. Remember the good old days when you went on a family facation and drove 3 days on a 2 lane highway and stayed at Mom and Pop motels and ate in a Mom and Pop restaurant OR Mom fixed sandwiches sto save Mone
You wrote letters and mailed them with a 3 cent first class stamp. You had to know how to spell in those days.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
Well Rob, why don’t you buy some of their stock and make some of that money yourself? Then you can use it to help all those poor and deserving people you care so much about. They trade on the NYSE as FMX
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by jaui , Zihuatanejo, Sunday, November 18, 2018, 02:58 (2919 days ago) @ Skeet20
18 XI 2018
Informative, though old (2011) article about OXXO NOT participating en la Bolsa de Valores.
https://expansion.mx/negocios/2011/10/19/femsa-ve-a-oxxo-en-bolsa-a-futuro
Oxxo dice 'no' a la Bolsa mexicana - Expansión.
https://expansion.mx/negocios/.../femsa-ve-a-oxxo-en-bolsa-a-futur...
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Oct 20, 2011 - "Definitivamente es una posibilidad listar a Oxxo (en la Bolsa). ... creamos que vamos a generar más valor", comentó José Antonio Fernández, ...
Cifras OXXO
https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/mercados/FEMSA-y-su-corona-llamada-Oxxo-20171106-0107.html
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OXXO on Playa la Ropa
Hola Jaui…...Informative background on OXXO and parent company FEMSA, gracias. I understand Heineken has a stake in FEMSA, which explains why you find Heineken beer in OXXO outlets, but not Corona/Modelo.
On the social side, OXXO employees --poorly paid at around $4500/mth -- ARE offered a decent medical plan. For example, the mother of an OXXO worker receives medical coverage under her daughter`s plan. Wouldn`t find that under Canada`s much-touted health care system!
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Altona Stu , Altona, Manitoba, Sunday, November 18, 2018, 10:18 (2919 days ago) @ zulualpha
In Canada everyone's mother is covered by government supplied health care.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by cd69 , Winnipeg,MB,Canada, Sunday, November 18, 2018, 11:35 (2919 days ago) @ Altona Stu
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
Zulualpha: No you wouldn't find that on Canadian health care. The mother would be covered on her own. That is the Canadian plan--health care for all.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Sunday, November 18, 2018, 09:52 (2919 days ago) @ jaui
Oxxo's parent company FEMSA is publicly traded. Not sure why this seems to be such an elusive point to establish.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by jaui , Zihuatanejo, Sunday, November 18, 2018, 11:50 (2918 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Oxxo's parent company FEMSA is publicly traded. Not sure why this seems to be such an elusive point to establish.
It may be "such an elusive point to establish" possibly because the specific NAME of OXXO is NOT?
Using the page from your link, after searching for FEMSA---->
femsa
Nov 10, 2018 ... Ticker Symbol: FEMSA. Series: Capital. Web Site: www.femsa.com ... FEMSA. #. Note Amount Note Price. Note: To disable the graphics zoom, please click the ...
https://www.bmv.com.mx/en/Grupo_BMV/.../FEMSA-5305-3
Using the same search process for OXXO, no "Ticker Symbol" is shown, which leads me to believe that when called as such....OXXO.... is NOT "publicly traded" under THAT name.
I.M.O. I think is where the confusion lies.
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jaui
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The stock pays a paltry 1.5% dividend and is up about 5% since 2013 in Mexico trading as Femsaubd. On the NYSE it is dead money ,has gone down about 25%. So it isn’t shareholders making money, more likely the only people making money are the board of directors and officers.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Talley Ho , Playa la Ropa, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 13:50 (2919 days ago) @ Talley Ho
Traffic on the Playa la Ropa road (Escenica la Ropa) has not increased. In fact, we very rarely see a vehicle on the new road.
The gentleman who has the little store across from Casa que ve al Mar has legs, just not the use of them. We talked this morning while we were paddling and he was doing his regular morning "swim."
The OXXO is being built where there was an abandoned house, not on virgin territory.
OXXO is not publicly traded. Read about it, it's fascinating.
Just to correct a few points....
We'd like to see a sign put over the styrofoam ice chests they all sell that makes it very clear that they will not be allowed to take them onto the beach.
Rob, you'd likely have more voice with corporate doing that than we would.
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Gringo Viejo , Kansas/Zihuatanejo, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 15:05 (2919 days ago) @ Talley Ho
Most PEMEX gov't owned gas stations have an OXXO next door. Coincidence?? Hhmmmmmm?
OXXO on Playa la Ropa
by Helene , Zih, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 17:15 (2919 days ago) @ Gringo Viejo
IT's not an Oxxo but there is a little store that is now open. Traffic as far as I can tell has not increased from the road to anywhere.
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by Linda from Canada , Zihua and Grand Marais, Manitoba, Saturday, November 17, 2018, 20:39 (2919 days ago) @ Helene
The little store that is already open is Modelarama, right on the corner.
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