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Thread: How often do you go to the convenience store?

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    Question How often do you go to the convenience store?

    It's not even three in the afternoon and I've already been three times today.

    Tokyo life is very odd.

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    once a week. Combinis are way too expensive.

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    About once a day, but I usually go to the supermarket instead, cheaper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wernst View Post
    once a week. Combinis are way too expensive.
    yea, the one-hundred yen liter of tea is killing me!
    ... and thanks to you well_bicyclically, you helped me a lot.

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    I really rich, so I go to the convenience store every day and spend 189 yen.
    Come as you are.

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    On average once a day...They're just so...convenient.

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    I use them a lot for their ATMs. Apparently, I have enough in my account to have the transaction fees waived no matter what time of day or day of the week. A lot easier than trying to track down my bank's.
    I think it's true and that's good enough for me.

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    I would rather go to supermarkets. Not as many stores as convenience stores, but, there is a few stores around my place. I am not really into the convenience store business model after what happened with the March earthquake -- carrying many items with extremley very limited stock level = the surest way toward total stockout at the wrong moment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guru View Post
    I would rather go to supermarkets. Not as many stores as convenience stores, but, there is a few stores around my place. I am not really into the convenience store business model after what happened with the March earthquake -- carrying many items with extremley very limited stock level = the surest way toward total stockout at the wrong moment.
    So many beers... so many points on my conbini card.... so many free beers... so many points on my conbinii card....

    For once, a beautiful cycle....
    Can't rain all the time.

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    Once, maybe twice a month - primarily to pay a bill, and almost never to purchase food. Sometimes to buy canned coffee if driving and drowsy is on the horizon.

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    I go pretty much twice a day. Before heading into my office, I usually buy drinks - 2L bottle of water and an orange juice. After my dinner, I usually go back for a snack of some sorts.
    The only thing in Japan that is harder than being a foreigner in Japan, is being Japanese in Japan.

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    Default How often do you go to the convenience store?

    At least once a day, more when I'm on the road and travelling around Japan, which is quite often. The convenience stores in Japan are so convenient and offer a large variety of goods at reasonable prices.

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    I go once every two days or so, to buy biscuits for my sons.

    Then I steal the free toy that comes with it.

    The perfect crime.

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    once or twice a day.
    it's where everybody knows my name.

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    Wouldn't it be a great idea to put in a tachinomi corner in a konbini?
    I think it's true and that's good enough for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hijinx View Post
    Wouldn't it be a great idea to put in a tachinomi corner in a konbini?
    Uh, isn't that another way of saying the area immediately outside the conbini?!? You can eat, drink and smoke to your heart's content....

    And if a cute j-chick walks by on her way into the conbini, you can ask her to pick you up another beer!
    Can't rain all the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Call_It_Like_Eye_See_It View Post
    Uh, isn't that another way of saying the area immediately outside the conbini?!? You can eat, drink and smoke to your heart's content....

    And if a cute j-chick walks by on her way into the conbini, you can ask her to pick you up another beer!
    Then they should put a few tables for your drinks outside--make it high brow.
    I think it's true and that's good enough for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hijinx View Post
    Then they should put a few tables for your drinks outside--make it high brow.
    Don't tell me you don't know of any conbinis with seats or parasol-covered tables in your neck of the woods...

    Hear in Osaka City, I can count at least 11 with my two hands....

    Another idea is to carry your own folding 100 yen seat in your backpack and unwind with it outside the conbini - at least that's more comfortable than squatting or standing....
    Can't rain all the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Call_It_Like_Eye_See_It View Post

    Another idea is to carry your own folding 100 yen seat in your backpack and unwind with it outside the conbini - at least that's more comfortable than squatting or standing....
    This I like.
    I think it's true and that's good enough for me.

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    Every morning on the way to work...105 yen lt of lemon water to drink during the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hijinx View Post
    Then they should put a few tables for your drinks outside--make it high brow.
    They had that all over the place in Taiwan. To make matters even more awesome there were thrifty can collectors who would come and take all your empties away now and again...

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    Quote Originally Posted by twelvedown View Post
    They had that all over the place in Taiwan. To make matters even more awesome there were thrifty can collectors who would come and take all your empties away now and again...
    I'm packin' up and moving--there is better.
    I think it's true and that's good enough for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hijinx View Post
    I'm packin' up and moving--there is better.
    Yup. And the food is better. And the fruit is great . And the beer is O.K.

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