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In withdrawing its $46 billion bid for Japan’s convenience store leader, the Canadian firm, Couche-Tard, has shown how unprepared it always was. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/18/japan/7-eleven-was-doomed-from-the-start/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #seveniholdings #couchetard #conbini

At some point it should no longer be called onigiri. 🍙👀

#conbini #food

Massive "New York Buffalo Chicken Rice Balls" on the shelf in 7-11 selling for ¥320.

#lawson #conbini #japan

@Melissabeartrix I do my grocery shopping at he deli in Marion Street. So I'll be nearby anyway.
#conbini

I miss conbini breakfasts. Getting a breakfast wrap and latte for nearly $20 is just lunacy.

#japan #conbini #coffee #breakfast #cafe

Oh Lawson. I think I'll miss you most of all.

#lawson #conveniencestore #conbini #japan

Show HN: Interactive map of the convenience store "turf war" in Japan
https://conbini.kikkia.dev
#ycombinator #conbini_wars #japan #convenience_stores #map #territory #conbini #lawson #family_mart #7_eleven #7_11 #ministop

The 7-Eleven convenience store chain, a deeply ingrained part of modern Japanese life, faces a potential takeover by Canadian company Alimentation Couche-Tard. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/08/21/7-eleven-buyout/ #commentary #7eleven #alimentationcouchetard #seveni #conbini #convenientstores

"Seven & i Holdings Co. said...it has received a proposal by Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. to acquire all of its outstanding shares"
"...sources have indicated that...the offer may be too low to be feasible"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240819/p2g/00m/0bu/023000c
🔸Didn't know that Japanese convenience store Circle K Sunkus, which FamilyMart absorbed in 2016, had licensed its name from Alimentation Couche-Tard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_K_Sunkus
#Japan #conbini

sugarery.

#conbini #convenience #foodporn #digicam #powershotg2

Inside of an ezymart, wall to wall bags of brightly coloured lollies are on display under white lighting.

This sweet potato ice cream sandwich made to look sorta like a sweet potato is pretty good if you like sweet potatos, sweet potato 🍠

#japan #conbini #snacks

This sweet potato ice cream sandwich made to look sorta like a sweet potato is pretty good if you like sweet potatos, sweet potato 🍠

#japan #conbini #snacks

Sweet potato ice cream sandwich cross section

Finally, it’s fall. At long last, I can enjoy the autumnal flavors of a whipped cream, apple, and cinnamon sauce sandwich!

#autumn #fall #apple #conbini

whipped cream, apple, cinnamon sauce sandwich

Conbini be everywhere:

Japan's Northernmost City Gets Its 2nd Combini Chain - Unseen Japan

https://unseen-japan.com/lawson-wakkanai-new-combini/

> The city of Wakkanai in Hokkaido used to have only one convenience store chain. The next one was 100km off. That all changed this week.

#Japan #JapaneseCulture #Conbini #コンビニ

Conbini review: 激辛チータラ

This was pretty good (if you like the amalgam of fish and cheese that is チータラ). But it was not 激辛　(super spicy🌶️). It was pleasant heat that lingered on the backend.

7 / 10
Dinged for small portion size, overpromising on heat.

#conbini

I couldn't resist.

#familymart #japan #conbini #spam #dinner #onigiri

Spam onigiri with egg and tuna from a convenience store.

Catching up with emails and the Conbini Boys newsletter is now on my shitlist for calling the FamilyMart pizza-flavored-potato-chip-flavored pizza "inbred". It may not be much to look at but the very idea has my perverse palette drooling. #conbini #jfood #food https://conbiniboys.substack.com/p/the-chiki-wars-peak