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Family Mart unleashes sweet cats in Japan for Cat Day, but do they taste as good as they look?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025
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New collection brings the cute to this Japanese convenience store chain for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (animals • Cat Day • cats • COK • combini • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Family Mart becomes Family Nyart with new range of sweets for Cat Day in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025

Japanese convenience store chain serves up the cutest treats for cat lovers.

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• Japan
• (Cat Day • cats • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • Coony • cute • drinks • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • marketing • Mofusand • SNJO)

Thousands of convenience stores in Japan to end sale of print magazines this spring

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2025

Move comes as one in four municipalities in Japan has no bookstore.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • Lawson • magazines • physical media • society)

Japanese convenience stores have tasty, diet-friendly meals, like these three under 500 calories

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2025

If you’ve gained some unintended weight over the holidays, believe it or not, Japanese convenience stores are a great place to start your diet.

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• Japan
• (bento • boxed lunches • COK • convenience stores • diet • Family mart • food • health • instant noodles)

Family Mart releases a fukubukuro lucky bag packed with cool Convenience Wear

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2025

Chain’s viral fashion now comes in a convenient limited-edition pack that fans are scrambling for.

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• Japan
• (clothes • COK • combini • convenience stores • Convenience Wear • Family mart • fashion • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO • socks • taste test)

What’s in a Family Mart lucky bag?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 27, 2024

Japanese convenience store serves up two fukubukuro packed with surprises.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • lucky bags 2025 • SNJO • taste test)

Travel to a Japanese convenience store at an active volcano

• Oona McGee
  Dec 5, 2024

It’s a Lawson, but not as we know it…

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience stores • Family mart • island • Japanese convenience stores • Kagoshima • konbini • Lawson • Sakurajima • SNJO • travel • volcano)

Japanese convenience store chain adds Neo Wagashi sweets to its lineup

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2024

Family Mart turns tradition on its head with a new take on two well-known Japanese sweets.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • daifuku • dorayaki • Family mart • food • Japanese sweets • konbini • matcha • SNJO • sweets • taste test • wagashi)

Starbucks Japan releases a new chilled cup exclusively at Family Mart convenience stores

• Oona McGee
  Nov 7, 2024

Limited-edition drink joins a new series of Merry beverages for the holiday season.

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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)

Japanese convenience store chain releases new Immoral Konbini Food for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Oct 14, 2024

We try two of the unbelievable new offerings from Family Mart.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • drinks • Family mart • food • Gonbei • konbini • omusubi • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese convenience store releases a new bento sandwich, but is it better than a bento rice ball?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 10, 2024

“Built-in” bentos are currently transforming the konbini food scene.

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• Japan
• (bento • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • Lawson • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese convenience store Family Mart announces abolishment of eat-in spaces

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 4, 2024

Goodbye eat-in spaces, hello more convenience store clothing?

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • drinks • eat-in • Family mart • food • restaurants)

Are Family Mart’s new “exquisite” rice balls worth the high price tag?

• Oona McGee
  Sep 18, 2024

Japanese convenience store chain teams up with esteemed restaurants for a new type of onigiri.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • family restaurants • food • Japanese Restaurant • konbini • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • review • rice • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese convenience store issues rice ball recall, foodies would’ve loved to eat them anyway

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 12, 2024

Family Mart makes a mistake that still sounds so right (and delicious).

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Family mart • food • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • recall • rice • rice balls • sumeshi • sushi • vinegar • weird)

Luigi set to star in Family Mart’s latest collab event with exclusive sandwiches and blankets

• Master Blaster
  Aug 19, 2024

Player 2 ready.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Family mart • FamiPay • food • instant noodles • Luigi • nintendo • sandwiches • Super Mario • video games)

Family Mart bartender robot Milly is here to serve you coffee…but not in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 18, 2024

After meeting Milly, we want to take her home with us.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (coffee • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • drinks • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • robots • SNJO)

Nuisance foreigner climbs onto Family Mart roof in Shibuya, yells “I did it!” before police step in

• SoraNews24
  Aug 15, 2024

Bad behaviour by foreigners sees a new term being coined in the Japanese media.

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• Japan
• (bad behavior • bad tourist • combini • convenience stores • Family mart • foreigners in Japan • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • news • police • Shibuya • society • tourism • tourists)

Lawson convenience stores team up with Tenkaippin ramen chain for new cold ramen in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 7, 2024

Convenience store food just keeps getting cooler. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cold noodles • cold ramen • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • taste test • Tenkaippin)

Which of Japan’s Big 3 convenience stores has the best keema curry? 【Taste test】

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 30, 2024

We put our taste buds to the test to determine our favorite konbini version of one of Japan’s most popular curries.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • Anji Tabata • COK • convenience store • Family mart • food • keema curry • konbini • Lawson • SNJO • spicy • taste test)

The top 5 ice creams you should try at Family Mart convenience stores in Japan this summer

• Oona McGee
  Jul 30, 2024

Recommendations from staff reveal some unusual icy treats. 

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • Famima • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese ice creams • konbini • SNJO)

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