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As Trevor Wheatley, one of the artists behind the store, and Rashad Maharaj, the managing director of the design studio Puncture<\/a>, who served as the project\u2019s producer, described it, \u201cGlobal Convenience\u201d was inspired by the idea of convenience stores as everyday places of cross-cultural exchange.<\/p>\n

Such exchanges are amplified in a global city like Toronto during the World Cup, they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were thinking of convenience stores, you know, there\u2019s these daily interactions; you hear different languages, you see the same people, you start talking,\u201d Mr. Maharaj, 39, said during a joint phone interview with Mr. Wheatley on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The World Cup, Mr. Maharaj said, \u201ckind of has that same thing, where you might not know the person, but due to it, you kind of like start speaking to each other and you start building those kind of personal interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In deciding to anchor the store 60 feet offshore, Mr. Wheatley and his collaborators \u2014 who also include his longtime artistic partner, Cosmo Dean<\/a>, and Spencer Cathcart, Puncture\u2019s creative director \u2014 tried to balance the need for people to see the store\u2019s design details with the desire to dissuade them from jumping in the water to appreciate them up close. (Swimming in Toronto Harbor outside designated areas is illegal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But Mr. Wheatley stressed that he was unconcerned by the stranded swimmer and others like him; someone else, he said, swam out to the store and graffitied it in the days before the rescue, despite the keep-off signs on the store\u2019s dock, which is secured by six 3,000-pound anchors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Trevor Wheatley, one of the artists behind the store, and Rashad Maharaj, the managing director of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12370,13009,37664,4408,9470,37665,48,8164],"class_list":["post-105405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-convenience-stores","tag-lake-ontario","tag-lakes","tag-north-america","tag-rescues","tag-shopping-and-retail","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}