What 7-Eleven’s Takeover Offer Says About Doing Business in Japan

Tconvenience shop, or Konbiniis an institution of modern Japanese life. Open at all hours, it offers customers delicious food and household goods, as well as the ability to pay bills and send packages. Industry leader 7-Eleven has refined new products, such as takeaway food Onigirior rice balls and eventually took over the American chain from which it originated. But if Alimentation Couche-Tard (WORK), a Canadian retailer that operates a Circle store K the retail chain has achieved its goal, 7-Eleven will no longer be Japanese.