7-11 Coming to Downtown?

[Demosthenes]

The 7-11s in Japan are awesome. They are mini-grocery stores, not just chips, soda, and cigs. In fact, the candy and soda are very limited in the Japanese stores, and they have items like sushi, fresh made teas.

I suppose its too much to hope they do that here, huh....

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

^^^  probably, because that's not what the majority likes (sushi, tea).  Americans like candy, chips and soda.

I'm just wondering why the beer vending machines never caught on here.....

[Ocklawaha]

^^^  probably, because that's not what the majority likes (sushi, tea).  Americans like candy, chips and soda.

I'm just wondering why the beer vending machines never caught on here.....

The simple answer is that United States, unlike the rest of the America's has a long standing need to control personal and consumer behavior and to criminalize anything that goes beyond some preconceived notion of social morality. Ask anyone from Latin America if drinking is a problem among the youth in their countries... NOT AT ALL. No restrictions, equals no attraction to rebellious children. Here, the rule is drinking a beer or smoking a cigarette as a teen is paramount to ripping off the national treasury and brings instant hero status. Just goes to show that we could learn a lot from 'our poor backward neighbors.'

OCKLAWAHA

[Tacachale]

^Well, partially. There are cultural factors as well. Binge drinking is much more common across the Anglosphere than it is in certain other parts of the world. The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have basically the same patterns and problems that we do, despite each country having quite different approaches to handling it. It's a deep cultural issue that won't be dealt with in one fell swoop.

[Dog Walker]

^Super civilized Iceland has a huge incidence of youth binge drinking too.  Maybe it's a Viking heritage thing.  Rate of alcoholism in Mediterranean peoples, including Jews, is much lower than among Northern Europeans.  Given the problems among Native Americans and Aboriginal people in Australia, there must be a genetic component to it as well.

[GatorGrowl]

7-Eleven is not a Japanese company.  They have been headquartered in Dallas, Texas since 1925, and remain there.   They are, however, the largest chain of markets in Japan.  The convenience store format is extremely popular with the Japanese.

[ben says]

The 7-11s in Japan are awesome. They are mini-grocery stores, not just chips, soda, and cigs. In fact, the candy and soda are very limited in the Japanese stores, and they have items like sushi, fresh made teas.

I suppose its too much to hope they do that here, huh....

Just got back from Tokyo, and I think, even if I didn't buy anything, I walked into a 7-11 at least once a day.

[tufsu1]

7-Eleven is not a Japanese company.  They have been headquartered in Dallas, Texas since 1925, and remain there.   

maybe so, but they are a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese company.

[ben says]

Per Wiki: 7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co. of Japan.[2]