The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates toward fresh food and specialty drinks.

Convenience-store chain 7-Eleven is closing hundreds of "underperforming" stores in North America, its Japanese-owner said.

Hundreds of “underperforming” 7-Eleven stores across North America are closing, the convenience store announced Thursday.

The convenience retailer, which has 8 locations on Staten Island, has been hit hard by declining cigarette sales.

Eleven is set to shut down nearly 450 underperforming stores across North America, the company announced Thursday. A decline in revenue, particularly cigarette sales, contributed to the convenience store chain’s closing of 444 locations,