How Japanese 7-Eleven’s Became The Best

Convenience stores are a great place to grab a quick snack on the go, but out in the West they don't always have the best reputation. Head east and you'll discover this isn't the case. From full meals to high quality fresh foods, Driaan talks us through the history about how 7-Eleven in Japan has become the king of convenience.

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[waedidmyhandlechange]

7-Elevens in Japan are on a whole different level, especially the food choices. They're actually good!

[Sacto]

Also, 7-Elevens in Japan allow you to do things like pay utility bills, buy tickets for transit and various entertainment events, and even do banking (7-Eleven Japan even have their own banking system operated through ATM machines inside the store).

[Chris]

The 7-Eleven in Japan is remarkable! For heavy luggages, you can drop it over there and have them mailed to airport, city or your next hotel for a fee. That saved a lot of hassle especially we saved check-in fee for budget airline and avoiding hoarding space inside tightly packed commuter train or metro.

[thejessmac]

What a fun and informative video. I'm glad my insights helped, and I've learned so many new things about 7/11 in the last 10 minutes! I loved hearing about the history, and I had no idea you could do so many errands like booking tickets. Next time I'm in Asia, I also have new snack ideas; yum!

[AceMonkeyIlium]

The closet two 7-11 near where I live is 1 minute walk and 3 minute walk. I like getting the chicken and both 7-11 have different food so it’s amazing.

[joshhillmedia]

Oh hey I’m in this!
Great video mate, much love!

[barrodexteriit.]

I don't know why but there's something so appealing to 7-Elevens in East Asia that it urged me to continually watch videos of it, like the videos of Strictly Dumpling shown in this video.

[SonnyDarvish]

I lived in KL, Malaysia and 7-Eleven was actually part of my daily life. I visited Japan and it was even better. Now I (sadly) live in Germany where shops close with sunset and Sundays are closed for religious purposes. One of the main reasons I'm preparing to move to Japan is for its convenient lifestyle!

[micahbonewell]

If Suzuki bought out a majority stake in 7-11s then why are the ones in the US still trash? (besides Hawaii)

[gedrictudio]

7-Eleven Philippines' Egg Sandwich is god-tier

[vokasimid]

love this, ive been to Lawson, Familymart (7-11 didnt really take on for a long time in Indonesia), it has all the great featurrs you mentioned except the spaces here are 3 times smaller, and barely have indoor seats in most of branches, so we have to sit outside these covinient store while enduring baking hot sun just to have lunch, o course this isnt popular. And most of locations are on busy streets instead of quiet residencial area, which give the impression that these stores are only for young, active city dwellers

[xraymind]

You forgot to mention 7-11s in Japan has very clean toilet. That's the most convenient thing about them.

[icyblue]

Wait till you see 7-11 in Thailand. You can find it almost everywhere. They translate local dishes into cheap microwave meals for $1 (rice dish, burger, chicken, onigiri, sausage, tokbokki, buns, etc.) which they are selling 24 HRS a day. With COVID, they added a delivery service for free (or almost free in a remote area) so you don't even need to walk out of your house. They will keep expanding because the owner is also the richest guy in Thailand who owns almost every business through CP Group. They have a super large farming business, telecommunication, internet broadband, cable tv, , Lotus (Tesco), Makro (Costco), 12, 000 branches of 7-11. Plus, they are the largest shareholder of the world's largest insurance company Ping An. They also own a property in the middle of Shanghai and opens a 7-storey mall. Fascinating how this guy is so powerful and yet no one can do anything about him. So what we do now is trying to ban 7-11 because they support the military dictatorship in Thailand.

[mimilouw]

7 Elevens in Taiwan are the best 😍 the Onigiri 🍙🍙🍙 is 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

[naimranizam]

plenty of convenience store in malaysia too.. love it so much

[beeniemen]

Like Tesco sainsbury in the uk they are overall and very convenient

[mattym]

cdwagva would be coldly asking you to check out Lawson

[delawrenceblue]

Japanese ownership redefined convenience 🏪 stores.

[DatKidJohnny]

Sorry. Taiwan's 7/11 Are a league above

[tiagoprado]

How awful can convenience stores in America be for there to be this much excitement about the Japanese ones? Aside from the ticket buying everything sounds completely and utterly normal for me, and i live nowhere near East Asia.