More and more convenience store chains and food makers are installing vending machines or unattended sales stands in companies to tap demand from white collar workers. Last month, Lawson Inc. launched Petit Lawson, a self-service outlet at which products from confectioneries to cup noodles are ...
Sales at convenience stores fell 0.1 percent in June from a year earlier to log the first drop in four months, with rainy days in northern Japan and low temperatures in western Japan keeping customers away, industry data showed Thursday. The same-store sales of eight ...
Faced with a severe labor shortage and grappling with heavy workloads amid a surge in online shopping, courier companies are teaming up with convenience stores to distribute parcels and relieve some of the burden on drivers. In April, Yamato Transport Co., which runs the country's ...
Purchases by foreign visitors at department stores in May jumped 42.8 percent from a year earlier to ¥19.3 billion, led by robust demand for cosmetics, an industry group said Tuesday. Sales to foreign tourists per capita are also on an upward trend, partly due to ...
Seven-Eleven Japan Co., the nation's largest convenience store operator, will start opening outlets in Okinawa around fiscal 2019, extending its presence to the only area in Japan without Seven-Eleven stores, the president of the chain said Friday. President Kazuki Furuya told Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga ...
Japan's growing labor shortage threatens the nation's ubiquitous convenience stores, whose business model relies on an army of part-timers packing bento boxed lunches, manning cash registers and delivering goods 24/7. The big three operators 7-Eleven, FamilyMart and Lawson, which have expanded through Japan's long slump, ...
Japan’s major convenience store chains are patronizing apartment complexes and adding nursing care services as the population grays at a faster pace.
The government in conjunction with five major convenience store operators plans to introduce an advanced self-checkout system by 2025 to mitigate expected labor shortages, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said it will cooperate with Seven-Eleven Japan Co., FamilyMart Co., Lawson ...
Lawson Inc. said Wednesday that Genichi Tamatsuka will step aside as chairman of the convenience store operator in May. Tamatsuka, 54, is expected to be named as an adviser at the company's general shareholders meeting on May 30. The chairman's resignation came after the company established ...
Seven & I Holdings Co., the world's largest convenience store operator, agreed to acquire Sunoco LP retail shops and gasoline businesses for $3.3 billion (about ¥365.9 billion) in a record deal for the Japanese company as it seeks to expand in the U.S. The deal ...
A convenience store retailer is adding elderly care support services to several of its stores, motivated by the surge in Japan's rapidly aging population. While other convenience store chains have added meal delivery services to target older generations, Lawson Inc. has opened service areas that ...
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo illegally docked the payment of a 16-year-old part-time worker after she took sick leave without arranging for another employee to cover her shifts, the chain's operator said Tuesday. The store deducted ¥9,350 from the high school student's paycheck after ...
