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Japanese convenience store Lawson releases light-up sign stand, tote and pouch in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 13, 2023
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Shut up and take our money!!!

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience stores • cool • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson • lights • merchandise • pouches • tote bags)

Japan super budget dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at 7-Eleven?

• Oona McGee
  May 23, 2023

11 surprising cheap meals you can make at this famous Japanese convenience store chain.

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• Japan
• (1000 yen • 7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • cheap food • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • senbero • SNJO • taste test)

The Japanese convenience store where you can drink beer on tap

• Oona McGee
  May 12, 2023

Special branch in Tokyo is more like a convenience store bar.

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• Japan
• (bars • beer • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • cool • draft beer • drinking • Iidabashi • Japanese convenience stores • JR East • konbini • New Days • pk sanjun • SNJO • Tokyo)

Japanese convenience store sells an epic egg sandwich you won’t find anywhere else

• Oona McGee
  May 8, 2023

Konbini food just reached new levels of awesomeness, thanks to one very special chain.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • egg sandwiches • ham katsu • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • pork cutlet • sandwiches • Seico Mart • Seicomart • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese convenience store chain’s new matcha sweets are heaven for green tea lovers

• Oona McGee
  Apr 20, 2023

Family Mart surprises everyone with the quality of its new sweets range. 

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• Japan
• (cakes • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • Family mart • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • Kanbayashi Shunsho Honten • konbini • Kyoto • matcha • sweets • Uji • Uji Matcha)

Lawson convenience stores now offering subscription service for one free coffee daily for a month

• Dale Roll
  Apr 8, 2023

If you regularly stop for a Machi Cafe coffee, this could save you a ton of money!

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• Japan
• (Aichi Prefecture • coffee • convenience store • drinks • Lawson • Machi Cafe • subscription • subscription pricing • subscription service)

A visit to Green Lawson, the futuristic Japanese convenience store where you get served by an avatar

• Oona McGee
  Apr 4, 2023

Strangely, this convenience store turns out to be surprisingly inconvenient…

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• Japan
• (avatars • bento • combini • convenience store • cool • ecological • environment • environmentally friendly • food • konbini • Lawson • marketing • Mr. Sato • new • remote work • self-checkout • technology • unstaffed store)

Family Mart goes matcha crazy with new lineup of green tea sweets in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2023

Convenience store chain teams up with a company that traces its history back to a high-ranking tea master.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • Family mart • green tea • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Kanbayashi Shunsho Honten • konbini • Kyoto • matcha • sweets • Uji • Uji Matcha)

7-Eleven’s new whipped cream sandwich takes Japanese convenience store food to a whole new level

• Oona McGee
  Mar 20, 2023

Join us as we try this weird sandwich, and find out why it’s even better without fruit.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • conbini • conbini food • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cream • cream sandwich • fast food • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • konbini • sandwiches • SNJO • strawberries and cream • strawberry • taste test)

Lawson Store 100 sells two new simple, inexpensive bento showcasing popular Japanese side dishes

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 14, 2023

If you’ve ever wished that there was just a little bit more of a certain side dish in your lunch, you’ll absolutely love these bento bargains.

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• Japan
• (bento • convenience store • food • hijiki • kinpira gobo • konbini • Lawson Store 100 • lunch • Seiji Nakazawa • simple)

We try the recommended way to eat Ippudo’s new instant cup rice…which involves twice the Ippudo

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 28, 2022

Ippudo’s new “pollack roe-flavored pickled mustard greens cup rice” recently landed on shelves at 7-Eleven Japan.

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• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience store • food • Ippudo • konbini • mentai • Noodles • ramen • rice • SNJO • soup • takana)

7-Eleven Japan begins to implement new colorless food containers to reduce CO2 emissions

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 21, 2022

The new containers have already been rolled out at store locations in Japan’s northernmost prefecture Hokkaido.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • bento • boxed lunches • CO2 emissions • CO2 reduction • COK • convenience store • environment • environmentally friendly • food • Hokkaido • konbini • reduction)

We find the best “homestyle” onigiri at a super local chain of convenience stores

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 23, 2022

We encounter delectable rice balls that could have been made by mom on an island far from Japan’s mainland.

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• Japan
• (Amami Oshima • convenience store • egg • food • Kagoshima • konbini • onigirazu • onigiri • pork • rice balls • Shimanchu Mart)

Tasteless candy on sale at Lawson convenience stores

• Master Blaster
  Oct 28, 2022

Taste the rainbow… You know, because rainbows are optical illusions that don’t have a taste.

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• Japan
• (Aji no Shinai Ame • candy • convenience store • flavor • Lawson • Tasteless Candy • Test Product Election)

Lawson announces new human-controlled digital avatars at store registers starting this fall

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 26, 2022

One of Japan’s top convenience store chains plans to introduce digital avatars at over 200 stores in the next three years.

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• Japan
• (avatars • convenience store • digital • konbini • labor shortage • Lawson)

Eating every kind of cold noodle dish from Family Mart to stave off the summer heat【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  Aug 10, 2022

‘Tis the season for cold noodles!

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• Japan
• (COK • cold noodles • convenience store • convenience stores • Family mart • food • hiyashi chuka • hiyashi men • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • soba • somen • taste test • udon)

Saitama man’s 7M-yen Rolex stolen after leaving it alone with “potential buyer” for two minutes

• Master Blaster
  Aug 4, 2022

Watch out!

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• Japan
• (convenience store • crime • Rolex • Saitama • theft • trust • watches • Yacht-Master II)

Weiner Onigiri: Japanese convenience store rice ball has a surprise in store for Mr Sato

• Oona McGee
  Jul 4, 2022

Celebration sausage opens our mouth to a new way of eating. 

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson Store 100 • Mr. Sato • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test • unusual • Weiner • weird)

Famima Laundry: Japanese convenience store adds laundromat to store in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Jun 20, 2022

Welcome to the Famima laundromat!

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• Japan
• (coin laundry • COK • combini • convenience store • Family mart • Famima Laundry • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • laundromats • SNJO • Tokyo • unusual • weird)

Japanese convenience store teams up with centuries-old matcha shop for a very modern tea ceremony

• Oona McGee
  May 27, 2022

Family Mart gives us a tea ceremony to go this summer.

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• Japan
• (combini • convenience store • drinks • Family mart • frappes • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sweets • Kanbayashi Shunsho Honten • konbini • matcha • taste test • Uji)

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