Convenience Stores Archive

• 1March 16, 2010

  Sakamoto Ryoma figures, golf clubs embrace samurai spirit

  Ryoma Sakamoto (坂本龍馬) is one of the most mythologized of Japan’s modern heroes. The Shikoku samurai was assassinated in Kyoto …

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• 0February 16, 2010

  Local conbini serves up brand noodles

  It takes a country as obsessed with food and as innovative in retail as Japan to make even cheap ready-to-eat …

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• 3January 14, 2010

  Family Mart changes 500 stores over to am/pm

  Convenience store giant Family Mart is to change over around 10% of its stores, some 500 branches, to am/pm. Family Mart …

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• 2March 23, 2009

  Fashionable Beverages: TGC Milk Tea & Lawson

  Popular fashion festival the Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC) has released a chilled cup beverage called Collaboration Blend: Royal Milk Tea. …

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• 1January 8, 2009

  Veggie sweets and snacks get fashionable

  If the last year was all about drinkable veggies (a move that created some pretty unlikely combinations like the tomato …

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