It looks like they are doing nothing more than grouping vending machines together and putting a brand on them.
Posted on 08/29/2018 12:09:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
7-Eleven is launching first fully-automated stores 7-Eleven Express in South Korea.
Currently under trial, four vending machine-style convenience stores are being operated: two at the headquarters of 7-Eleven in downtown Seoul, one at Lotte E&M in Incheon, and one at the headquarters of Lotte Rent-a-Car in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province.
The store is designed as a 10-metre long express train, and consists of five vending machines with 200 products, which are divided into five categories for which there is high consumer demand: drinks, snacks, prepared meals, processed food and non-food products.
Consumers can make a purchase by inputting the product number into the machine or selecting items from the central kiosk, and pay via a prepaid transit card or credit card, not cash.
The stores feature a microwave oven and a hot water dispenser in the central area.
7-Eleven is taking steps to commercialise the vending machine-style convenience stores, and will accept franchise applications from its current franchisees, as a “second store”.
“This model is designed to maximise the profit of our current franchise owners,” 7-Eleven explained.
Self-service convenience stores are being tested in several markets around the world.
South Korean 7-Eleven also tested its “c-store of the future” with hand-payment at Lotte World Tower while the Taiwanese branch opened second unstaffed X-Store.
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.
I’ve seen people wander around for 20 minutes straight.
All I can think of us who has that kind of time?
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.
Ha!
The thugs would do just like they do with ATM’s (Truck and a Chain) but on a larger scale.
7-11 is Japanese owned .
Meh.
It’s more like an awkward elaborate vending machine with a 7-11 logo.
But S. Koreans are busy people, so whatever works.
Subway is a malignant cancer that has spread everywhere.
It is the future.
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.
All I can think of us who has that kind of time?
The same ones who stand outside the entrance bumming for spare change.
They could make it non-lethal gas that would knock everyone out until the cops showed up...
It looks like they are doing nothing more than grouping vending machines together and putting a brand on them.
I wonder if these types of facilities will eventually make their way to Seattle, land of the $15 dollar minimum wage.
They have a photo displayed of a white guy from Kansas saying “Thank you, come again”
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