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Japanese convenience store offering chance to have your shopping be effectively free for one day

Family Mart offering random reimbursements of up to 100,000 yen (US$630).

Japan’s convenience stores have become world-famous, not only for their convenient locations and operating hours, but for their amazingly wide variety of genuinely tasty snacks, drinks, and even full meals. Really, their only drawback is that they don’t always match the low prices you can find for similar items at supermarkets and drug stores.

There’s a potential upcoming exception to that at convenience store chain Family Mart, though, where if luck is on your side everything you buy in your shopping run could be effectively free.

On November 11, Family Mart customers who pay using the chain’s Fami Pay app can then play an in-app game, and if they win, they’ll be awarded Fami Pay credit equal to the entire cost of their purchases. The minimum purchase amount required to be eligible to pay is a paltry 111 yen (US$0.70), and the maximum possible prize is 100,000 yen. Technically, the 100,000-yen cap means that it’s possible you won’t be reimbursed for your entire purchase, but it’d be really, really hard to run up a bill greater than that in a single convenience store shopping trip.

There’s no need to be concerned about the sharpness of your gamer skills either, as the “game” you play consists entirely of pressing the green start button twice, then being informed of whether you’ve won or not.

Winners will immediately receive one yen worth of Fami Pay credit to confirm the win, and the rest of the credit will be added to your account in mid-December, with an expiration date of May 31. This delay is likely to prevent people from overspending and getting a bill they can’t afford to pay if they don’t win, since regardless of whether you win or not, you still need to be able to cover the cost of your bill at the time of purchase.

Eligibility to play the in-app game starts at midnight on November 11 and runs until 11:59 p.m. the same day, though the in-app game can be played anytime between November 11 and 13.

Source: Family Mart via My Navi News via Livedoor News via Jin
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