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Family Stores to Open 24 Hours
Family Stores announced today that they would follow other convenience
stores and allow their stores to open 24 hours a day, starting from August 1
Family Stores operate on a type of franchise system where the manager of a
-store is also the owner of the store. This means that the manager of a store can
make the important decisions about how tó run the store and whether to open
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for 24 hours.
Although other convenience stores have had problems with opening for 24
hours, Family Stores believe that they can be successful because of the location
of their stores. Shinji Yamada, the President of Family Stores, said, “Most of
our stores are in residential areas inside Tokyo. We think that in these areas
there is less competition with supermarkets so that there is enough demand to
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keep our stores open.”
Also, Family Stores have been very active in promoting automated services
and self check-outs. “Many convenience store groups have had problems
finding staff to work late at night and so have stopped the 24-hour service," said
Mr. Yamada. “However, with our self-service check-out system, our stores may
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not need to hire extra staff because the customers can serve themselves.”
12 Comments
Sena Ishida 12.June 2019, 22:47
This is great news. My local convenience store used to offer 24-hour service,
but they stopped because they couldn't find anybody to work late at night. !
hope the self-service system of Family Stores is successful,but I'm worried that
it might lead to people not paying for their items.
