Convenience stores in Tsukuba

A source of information which I looked over tells that Tsukuba City has about 108 convenience stores. No.1 is Seven Eleven and the number is 47 stores. No.2 is FamilyMart and the number is 20 stores. No.3 is Lawson and the number is 11 stores. And more, Coco stores(8), Mini Stop(7), Sunkus(7), SaveOn(6) and Seico Mart(2). Seven Eleven has many stores as usual, but FamilyMart has much many stores than Lawson. The stores of FamilyMart are a few around University of Tsukuba, so I think the number of FamilyMart is a few.

In September 26th, 2011, an ordinance and budget were concluded which we can get our certificates of residence copy and certificates  of the legal registration of our official seal by using our Basic Resident Register cards at Seven Eleven. We can get from Kiosuku terminal unit from a.m.6:30 to p.m.11:00, and we'll have to pay a fee of one hundred and fifty yen for getting it. However, we need procedure at town hall beforehand. Incidentally, we can use this service in the whole country.

The payment by the hour of a part time job at Seven Eleven in Tsukuba City is about from 740yen to 1070yen. At Lawson is about from 700yen to 1000 yen. At FamilyMart is about from 820 yen to 1040 yen.

FamilyMart

FamilyMart is Japanese convenience store. The first store was opened in Sayama, Saitama in 1973. At first, FamilyMart is under the umbrella of Seiyu but now is under the umbrella of ITOCHU corporation. The headquarters is on the 17th floor of the Sunshine60 Building in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo. FamilyMart's official motto is "FamilyMart, Where You Are One of the Family." FamilyMart cooperated with am/pm in 2010 and absorbed it in 2011. am/pm expanded stores in Kanto Area, so FamilyMart could become to expand power in Kanto Area.

FamilyMart has stores in all prefectures of Japan and has number 1 share in Okinawa, Nagasaki, Kagoshima. FamilyMart is different from Seven Eleven, Lawson and so on at the point of "Japanese" convenience store, so expansion of sales is free and started to open stores in Asia in the early stage.

FamilyMart has own credit card named "Famima T-card"
 and we can use T-point card. The image color of FamilMart are blue and green, and brue expresses urbane, intellect, hope and liberty, and green expresses nature, fresh, young, clean.

At first, symbol of FamilyMart is "smile star and sun". The symbol was used by 1997. A melon pan whose motif is smile star and sun sold on 21th June, 2011.
The melody of FamilyMart(when we enter store) is EC5227WP melody sign made by Panasonic. The melody sign isn't for company so we can also buy it. In fact, some people use this chime for their house.

Lawson

The origin of Lawson is Milk Shop Lawson in Ohio state, America which was made by J.J.Lawson in1939. This is the source of Milk can of Lawson's logo. Milk of the shop became popular and started chain stores which sell daily necessities. Now, the company was absorbed so there is no Lawson in America.

In Japan, Daiei cooperated with the company in 1974 and established Daiei Lawson in the follow year. At first a store open in Toyonaka city, Osaka prefecture and started to open mainly in Kinki district. In September 1979 the official name was changed to Lawson Japan, Inc. Originally a joint venture between Japanese consumer retailing giant Daiei and U.S.-based Lawson Co., Lawson was a wholly owned subsidiary of Daiei until 2001, when Mitsubishi corporation became the main shareholder as Daiei's slide began.

Lawson is one of the top convenience store chains in Japan, second only to convenience franchise giant Seven Eleven. To date, Lawson operates in all 47 prefectures of Japan as well as in Shanghai, China. August 2011, Lawson opened their first store in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Lawson has many kinds of store, for example, Lawson satellite, Lawson store 100, Natural Lawson, Natural Lawson selection, Lawson plus, Lawson plus natural select, Lawson hybrid, Postal Lawson, Highway pit by LAWSON, Happy Lawson, LAWSON+toks.
Lawson has own point card named "Ponta card". T-point card used to use in Lawson.