Convenience stores highlighting their vital community role

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Youdontknow at 02:33 PM JST - 11th October

Convenience stores are nothing but a blotch on the landscape. A hangout for idiots on motorcycles and peoplewho like to live on poor diets.

Dogdog - sorry, but you're wrong, Lawsons ARE franchised businesses. My neighbour owns one.
Dogdog at 03:24 PM JST - 11th October

Dogdog - sorry, but you're wrong, Lawsons ARE franchised businesses. My neighbour owns one.

Wow, didn't know that, thanks......
Pukey2 at 04:12 PM JST - 11th October

Just an idea but how about selling more healthy foods. It's all junk food and onigiri (and adult mags).
Farmboy at 04:57 PM JST - 11th October

Well, on a positive note, here in the boonies it's nice to be able to buy milk and eggs on the way home. The other stores are pretty far away.
projecthaberno at 05:03 PM JST - 11th October

Now there are only these souless conbi's, staffed by teenage part timers not from the local area

Agree with the first part, but not so sure those teens have a long commute.

Anyway, I avoid convenience stores because they take in money and send the profits off to some big city. It is much better for the local economy to keep the money in your own town.
BlackFlag at 07:40 PM JST - 11th October

the greatest value they have for the community is a safehouse throughout the night for battered wives and other victims of domestic abuse. its not all about the soft creams
cuddles20008 at 08:16 PM JST - 11th October

I for one would NOT go to a koban for help, they are just Lazy dumbasses.

Last week I was in hon-atsugi and walked past the koban near the station inside were 4 policemen (I use that term loosly) each sitting at a desk just looking out the window with arms folded, wow the backbone of the community and stealing tax payers money.

And what a laugh, want to close down a vital life line to the people who actually pay their salaries, I just hope one of you Local government officials have a problem one late night only to run to the cobini to find YOU closed it and the run to the Koban to find OH SURPRISE Nobody in attendance.

You Guys should be supporting the local stores, Because I see the police are doing a bang up job, Look at the crime rate!!!!.

And since last year, the tax system has changed don`t local government get more from us and central Government get less, and with this extra money they get from us.........This is the stratagy they come up with.

What qualifications do you need to be a local government member, because the are not really following the will of the community.

cuddles
Himajin at 10:26 PM JST - 11th October

Believe that and you'd believe anything. Utter rubbish.

What an odd comment,...I've known these people for years and your response is 'believe that and you'll believe anything'

Then the couple who were on PTA with me years ago and got a franchise to supplement their farming income were replaced with identical pod people...same for our other neighbors who own the 7-11 and Yamazaki. Who'da thunk it?
Himajin at 10:29 PM JST - 11th October

The people with the 7-11 had a tobacco shop, and got the franchise about 10 years ago. The Lawson's family, while their parents were farmers, realized it doesn't pay well, and they left some business to get a Lawson's franchise.
Himajin at 10:35 PM JST - 11th October

After the drunk driving laws were made stricter, a lot of families who ran sake stores for generations have changed over to conbini, there are two in my husband's home town alone run by former sake store owners (one being a childhood classmate).
nutsagain at 05:01 AM JST - 12th October

Guess we know different Lawsons, sorry. The only ones I've ever been in to have been staffed by glum looking and sleep-deprived kids. And despite there being perhaps only two other people in the store, insist I take 'a number' when ordering an ice cream. The closest thing to automatons you'll ever see. Even more absurd when the come out a few seconds later and bellow out 'Number 4!' They're a menace for people living nearby with noise and car lights shining through windows. Insect life they say, is also disturbed by the 24 hour lighting.
Himajin at 11:36 AM JST - 12th October

Well I suppose that all franchise owners don't want to get involved, they just want the income. Our Lawson's guy volunteers in the neighborhood, keeps an eye on the teenagers etc. You won't find him there after 11 pm though, after that , it's part-timers. His Dad comes in from 5am to about 9am and then either the husband or wife comes in. If you just go late at night or between 2-5 in the afternoon (the husband goes home to rest for the night shift)you may never know who owns it...or, they may not be directly involved.

Your Lawson's has ice cream? That's cool! Ours just has those ubiquitous nikuman, kara-age, and oden. Having to take a number though, is hilarious.
larguero at 12:39 AM JST - 13th October

Well, the whole story is based on a ridiculous proposition. First, because the energy saved would be very few. Second, because it is much worse to use energy at midday, when everybody is using than at night, when commercial and industrial consumption stops. Third, because you cannot forbid normal businesses to work during certain hours. It is just ridiculous. Japan could stop importing and exporting goods also, to curb CO2, but it would decrease so much the quality of life of people that nobody thinks about it. Forbidding 24 hours combinis will also hurt a lot of people and would do very little for the environment.
helloklitty at 04:12 AM JST - 13th October

It is nice to have a place to go to cool off in the summer time. I can also use their toilet. I like that! The food, however, is not to my liking so I don't buy anything. Also, their profits take my money from my community. I don't like that! The bosozoku come with their loud music. I reached in the car and turned the music off. The boy saw me and came out. I stood in front of him. He looked up at me and said something I could not understand.
Good_Jorb at 03:00 AM JST - 18th October

Believe that and you'd believe anything.

Seems hit or miss when it comes to conbini's. Where I used to live the Lawson store seemed to be run by slack looking part-timers, whereas; the 7-11 was for the most part run by the owner and his wife, who happened to live above the store, not the best place to live I guess but even in the crappest of Snow storms he still opened the store. They treated costumer the same as any mom and pops store. Then there was the Seico mart which had bad music and cheap milk.