The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store

Post by brazzy » Wed, May 29, 2019, 9:49 AM UTC

mbreese wrote: post #170

brazzy wrote: post #154

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> There's no reason they couldn't all coordinate better so that each individual store is only open through the night a couple times per week. That would make a lot more sense. You incorrectly assume their primary goal is to provide service to customers. Their primary goal is to maximize profits, and in a saturated market the only way to do that is by trying to take market share from the competition.

And in a market where the parent company doesn’t protect area rights, your competition can be other stores of the same franchise. Something about that seems wrong.

Post by glenneroo » Wed, May 29, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #202

glenneroo wrote: post #150

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Continuing on your Greek tangent, Greek pipes are generally not built to handle paper products, therefore you are supposed to throw it in a small trash bin, which may sound disgusting but they generally are rather airtight and you honestly don't smell anything if you use them properly. The alternative is clogging the pipes, which from my experience living in multiple Greek cities, happens a lot especially due to the…

In my experience (in the mid-90s), Greek pipes weren't even built to handle an above-the-median #2. And while a wastepaper bin was standard-issue adjacent to tourist-frequented toilets, a decent plunger was not. Which seems odd, given how cheap plungers are in comparison to service employees.