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7-Eleven is now officially open in Shanghai! The first of the convenience store's locations opened today in Xujiahui, and will be followed by about 165 sister stores in the next three years, according to Jason C.S. Lin, the CEO responsible for bringing this fine institution. To differentiate itself from Family Mart, Alldays and the like, 7-Eleven will "highlight the food store concept to focus on dining-out habits of white-collar workers while providing services like photocopying and fax machines." So... it'll be like a Kedi Kinkos hybrid. Sounds awesome? Source: Shanghai Daily
7-Eleven opens first store in Xujiahui
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Took long enough. Too bad there won't be any soft porn like "muscle magazine", "FHM", "import tuner" and "low rider" to accompany the Big Gulps. I do hope they'll have breakfast sandwiches and hot dogs and not just tea eggs and 30 day old sticks of whatever in those cook pots.
Another one opened in Luwan District, at Mengzi Lu near Liyuan Lu.