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The Slurpee is coming to Shanghai! According to Shanghai Daily, Taiwan-based President Chain Store Corp. will be opening four to six 7-Eleven stores in the city by the beginning of April. President Chain plans to have 100 7-Eleven outlets in three years, and will use Shanghai as a stepping stone into the east China region. While we're all excited about getting our hands on some iced slush, we wonder how they will they fare against Kedi, Alldays, Lawson, Family Mart, C-Store and the numerous other tiny convenience marts already saturated throughout the area.
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Why is a Taiwanese company opening 7-Eleven's? Can't the Japanese do that themselves?
And what do the Japanese have to do with this? President Chain Store group got the franchise rights from 7 Eleven, based in Dallas Texas. So tell me where do the Japanese come into this?
Anyhow it will be great o be able to get a slurpee here in Shanghai, provided its not Milk tea flavoured
...been living under a rock in the recent past, have you? 7-Eleven is now based in Tokyo, Japan. The American "mothership" went bankrupt and the Japanese franchisee brought them out, effectively becoming the new owner. And President's franchise rights came a little after ownership of 7-Eleven changed to Tokyo, I believe. Even if they got it earlier, they still answer to the new owners now.
But this might be better- this way they're not directly competing with FamilyMart/Lawson.
Sorry to disappoint everyone, but there are several 7Elevens in Beijing, and nary a one has a Slurpee machine. It is a cruel, cruel, cruel joke.
Yeah, I don't hold out much hope for the 7-11's being any good.
Just look at the example of Lawson. In Japan, Lawson are amazing. I loved Lawson there (although Mini-stop was my local) and the fresh food section was great with all kinds of quality stuff. Also, convenience stores have great selections of magazines too. And fresh coffee on the cheap.
Here they are mere shadows by comparison.
Hong Kong 7-11s are not too bad but despite having been there twice last year, I suddenly can't remember if they have slurpees or not.
Hmmmnn.
But Lawson here is practically the only place to get stuff imported from Japan without running to FreshMart. This has incidental benefits. Example- when Coca-Cola ran a promotion in Japan giving away free iTunes song codes on their cans, I ran to Lawson. Ended up with 5 songs total.
(and having been to HK only last month I can say for sure that only the smallest locations don't have Slurpee machines. If they don't have any here, FamilyMart's starting to sell Icees at some of their stores)
However, there ARE Slurpees Machines in 7-11s in Guangzhou, so there is some likelihood of having them.
Wow, how juvenile do you have to be to be excited about crushed ice and cordial. Get a life...
^you mean as opposed to your childish need to reply when you have nothing good to say?
Since when was liking slurpees something to be ashamed of? Here's to hoping they have crappy rotating hot dogs and taquitos as well.
"^you mean as opposed to your childish need to reply when you have nothing good to say?"
Thus speaks InternetCop.