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7-Eleven launches first fully-automated stores in South Korea
Retail News Asia ^ | August 29, 2018

Posted on 08/29/2018 12:09:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: be-baw

Retail chains worldwide. Costco and places like that came first and then the first food place was MacD at 12. But I do remember something about Subway passing MacD’s, probably since this chart was compiled in 2015.


21 posted on 08/29/2018 1:50:31 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Vendome

I’ve seen people wander around for 20 minutes straight.

All I can think of us who has that kind of time?


22 posted on 08/29/2018 2:13:04 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I had no idea 7-Eleven was owned by Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven


23 posted on 08/29/2018 2:16:28 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Thunder 6; dinodino

I guess I wasn’t being very clear. I didn’t mean Korea; I meant here in the USA. I can see these becoming popular in the high crime areas simply because it doesn’t put people at risk. I bet the machines can be restocked from the back meaning an actual person doesn’t ever need to be at risk in the store except for maybe a cleaning person who has no access to money or products.

I wonder how they would work things like beer, booze, and cigs. Maybe these vending stores simply wouldn’t carry those kind of items.


24 posted on 08/29/2018 2:30:41 AM PDT by Boomer
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To: Boomer

Ha!
The thugs would do just like they do with ATM’s (Truck and a Chain) but on a larger scale.


25 posted on 08/29/2018 2:41:50 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Cronos

7-11 is Japanese owned .


26 posted on 08/29/2018 2:50:00 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meh.

It’s more like an awkward elaborate vending machine with a 7-11 logo.

But S. Koreans are busy people, so whatever works.


27 posted on 08/29/2018 4:09:58 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I believe Subway has quite a few more locations than McDonald’s.

Subway is a malignant cancer that has spread everywhere.

28 posted on 08/29/2018 4:35:11 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is the future.


29 posted on 08/29/2018 4:38:09 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: sushiman
7-11 is Japanese owned

That sounds about right. This idea is the same as what already exists in Japan. There are many Youtube videos showing the unbelievable array of items that can be purchased from vending machines in Tokyo.

30 posted on 08/29/2018 4:38:56 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: Jonty30
I’ve seen people wander around for 20 minutes straight.

All I can think of us who has that kind of time?

The same ones who stand outside the entrance bumming for spare change.

31 posted on 08/29/2018 4:40:01 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: GraceG

They could make it non-lethal gas that would knock everyone out until the cops showed up...


32 posted on 08/29/2018 4:44:05 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It looks like they are doing nothing more than grouping vending machines together and putting a brand on them.

33 posted on 08/29/2018 6:09:17 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: be-baw
I’m surprised 7-11 is still a going concern. All stores that used to be around here are gone.

It didn't help that they had a relationship with Citgo for years. Here in Phoenix, they are a distant #2 to Circle K.
34 posted on 08/29/2018 7:15:18 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Boomer

I wonder if these types of facilities will eventually make their way to Seattle, land of the $15 dollar minimum wage.


35 posted on 08/29/2018 7:36:40 AM PDT by Thunder 6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They have a photo displayed of a white guy from Kansas saying “Thank you, come again”


36 posted on 08/29/2018 2:20:38 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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