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The dream of all-you-can-eat Japanese convenience store fried chicken is now a reality

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 19, 2025
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Family Mart’s festival of fried foods also includes fried chicken-themed accessories, clothing items, and luggage.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • convenience stores • Famichiki • Family mart • food • fried chicken)

7-Eleven showcases its newest robots for cleaning, stocking, and customer service

• Master Blaster
  Sep 12, 2025

Can going robotic ease convenience stores’ profitability blues?

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • business • convenience stores • employment • Family mart • labor shortage • Lawson • robots)

Family Mart opens first clothing store in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Sep 4, 2025

Even if you can take these clothes out of Family Mart, but you can’t take the Family Mart out of these clothes.

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• Japan
• (clothing • convenience stores • Convenience Wear • Family mart • Famima • Hiromichi Ochiai • Minato • Shibaura • shopping • Tokyo)

Japanese convenience store showdown: Who’s got the best red rice sekihan rice balls?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2025

It’s a red-letter day for sekihan fans.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Lawson • onigiri • red rice • rice • rice balls • sekihan • SNJO • taste test)

Starbucks releases a Kyoto Matcha Latte in Japan for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Aug 29, 2025

Japan-exclusive Starbucks drink will transport you to Kyoto… then Seattle, if you’re lucky.

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• Japan
• (chilled cup • Christmas • Christmas 2024 • coffee • COK • convenience stores • drinks • Family mart • holiday • Japanese convenience stores • latte • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Suntory • winter)

Our interest spikes as Haikyu head anime sweets arrive in Japanese convenience stores【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 10, 2025

Hinata and Kageyama become super-deformed, super-cute sweets at Family Mart.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Family mart • food • Haikyu!! • manga • manju • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Lawson debuts new fried chicken so let’s see how it compares to other stores

• Master Blaster
  Jul 30, 2025

Is the biggest bird best?

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • convenience stores • Fami Chiki • Family mart • food • fried chicken • L Chiki • Lawson • Manmaru Chicken • Nana Chiki)

Family Mart service brings local Hokkaido goods to your local convenience store this month

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 3, 2025

Beat the heat by ordering some delectable products from Japan’s northernmost island using the Famima Online service.

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• Japan
• (campaign • convenience store • Family mart • Famima Online • FamiPay • farming • Hokkaido • konbini • local • online)

What’s inside a Family Mart Grand Opening Lucky Bag?

• Oona McGee
  Jun 30, 2025

We join the party at a new convenience store opening in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience stores • Family mart • food • food review • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Pokémon Eevee evolves into Japanese convenience store sweets with exclusive merch giveaway【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 25, 2025

Pokémon fans can grab snacks and catch Eeveelutions at Family Mart.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • convenience stores • Eevee • Eeveelutions • Family mart • food • Pokemon • SNJO • sweets • video games)

We enjoy sheer searing bliss with the help of a fun new torching tool from Family Mart

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 18, 2025

There’s a fine line between playing and experimenting with food…make that ten different foods, to see which one was most on fire.

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• Japan
• (aburishi • COK • convenience store • cooking • experiment • Family mart • gadget • konbini • SNJO • tool • torch)

Japan’s mint chocolate season hits Family Mart with 14 new choco mint treats (and five superstars)

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 12, 2025

We taste-test the entire lineup of joy-inducing summertime blue-green sweets.

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• Japan
• (choco mint • chocolate • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • mint • mint choco • mint chocolate • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Family Mart is giving away free socks for your ice cream in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 4, 2025

Testing the convenience of Convenience Wear.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience stores • Convenience Wear • Family mart • food • food review • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Line Socks • papico • SNJO • socks • sweets • taste test)

Family Mart serves up Japanese nostalgia with new frozen choco banana that’s a sell-out hit

• Oona McGee
  Apr 27, 2025

There’s more to this iced treat than first meets the eye.

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• Japan
• (banana • bananas • choco banana • chocolate banana • COK • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • festivals • food • food review • fruit • japanese banana • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • nostalgia • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Family Mart’s eight new cheese treats tempt cheese lovers from across Japan【Taste test】

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 18, 2025

These products might just turn your love into obsession.

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• Japan
• (cheese • Cheesecake • COK • convenience stores • cream cheese • Family mart • food • food review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

The heartwarming impact of convenience store donation boxes in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 16, 2025

Little-known konbini feature reveals new insights into the top three chains.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • charity • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience stores • donation box • donations • Family mart • fundraising • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • Lawson • SNJO)

Family Mart releases new “raw” bread collection that bucks tradition, messes with your mind

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2025

Shironama breads shake up the Japanese convenience store food scene.

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• Japan
• (bread • breads • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • croissant • Family mart • food • Japanese bread • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • koppepan • SNJO • taste test)

We try the new Family Mart Uji matcha sweets before they go on sale in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2025

Find out which of these green tea treats is worth the calories.

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• Japan
• (cakes • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • matcha • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Uji Matcha)

Family Mart releases new collection of Uji matcha sweets to make green tea lovers swoon

• Oona McGee
  Mar 27, 2025

Matcha fair includes gummies, freeze-dried strawberries, and a special secret gem from Gion Tsujiri.

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• Japan
• (combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • freeze dried strawberries • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • matcha • matcha chocolate • Matcha Fair • matcha strawberries • matcha sweets • Uji Matcha)

Potato ice cream from Family Mart takes ice cream to a whole other level【Taste Test】

• Master Blaster
  Mar 15, 2025

If potatoes aren’t the future of ice cream, they should be.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • desserts • Family mart • ice cream • monaka • Potato Monaka • potatoes • snacks)

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