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Will removing porn from convenience stores in Japan hurt ailing tabloids?
Don't go looking for titillation at your local convenience store. As reported last month, Japan's three largest convenience chain operators — 7-Eleven, Family Mart and Lawson — are planning to halt sales of pornographic magazines nationwide by the end of August. While the operators pointed ...
Lawson closes two franchise stores in Saitama that falsified food expiration times
Lawson Inc. said Wednesday it closed two of its franchise convenience stores after discovering they had systematically falsified expiration times on some food items prepared in the stores over a period of several years. The company is now checking all other outlets throughout Japan to ...
Japan's convenience store giants to remove pornographic magazines from shelves
The three largest operators plan to stop selling pornographic magazines at outlets across the nation by the end of August.
Japanese government's plan for shopper rebate to underpin tax increase grows increasingly complex
The government's plan to hand out rebates to consumers who make cashless purchases could consist of two separate rates, sources with knowledge of the plans said Tuesday, raising concerns that the initiative will be confusing for consumers. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that the ...
Phan Hoang Tu Linh feels she has gotten the hang of working in a Japanese convenience store now, but she admits she found it tough at first. "We have three cash registers in our store but only two lines to wait in," says the 23-year-old ...
Japan's convenience store sales post first decline in five months
Sales at convenience stores fell in October for the first time in five months, down 1.5 percent from a year earlier due to declining demand for tobacco products after a tax increase, an industry body said Tuesday. Same-store sales for seven major convenience store operators, ...
Japan's convenience stores seek to boost sales with bookstore tie-ups
At a FamilyMart store that opened in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, in August, rows of bookshelves occupy a space next to an ordinary shopping area. In an eat-in section, customers read books and browse magazines they bought at the store. The outlet is the first of ...
Convenience store chain Lawson Inc. said Friday it will launch a banking business in October using its existing network of more than 13,000 automated teller machines nationwide. Its subsidiary Lawson Bank earned a license to start the business from the Financial Services Agency the same ...
Toyota might turn driverless vehicles into mobile convenience stores and cafes
Toyota Motor Corp. is considering a plan to turn self-driving vehicles into unmanned mobile convenience stores in cooperation with Seven-Eleven Japan Co., sources close to the matter said Friday. Under the plan, the autonomous electric vehicles would carry Seven-Eleven products to bring self-service convenience to ...
Japan promotes use of electronic tags over barcodes in bid to boost productivity
The industry ministry is stepping up efforts to introduce electronic tags, aiming to improve productivity in the retail sector in the face of an acute labor shortage. The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry has concluded an agreement with Seven-Eleven Japan Co., FamilyMart Co., Lawson Inc. ...
Let's discuss that Seven-Eleven that was forced to stay open in a blizzard
This week's featured article KYODO The owner of a Seven-Eleven convenience store in Fukui Prefecture was allegedly forced to work for about 50 hours without sleep in February after the chain rejected his requests to suspend business amid the heaviest snowfall in decades, a labor ...
