Ranking

I will show you several kinds of convenience store ranking.

-Sales Ranking 2010- (million yen)

1st.Seven Eleven(2,784,997)

2nd.Lawson(1,666,136)

3rd.FamilyMart(1,365,496)

4th.CircleK Sunkus(1,051,088)

5th.Ministop(300,442)

(http://facter.net/)

-Faborite Ranking 2009-

1st.Seven Eleven

2nd.FamilyMart
3rd.Lawson

4th.CircleK Sunkus

5th.Ministop

(http://getnews.jp/archives/15676)

-Number Ranking 2011(May)-

1st.Seven Eleven(13,233)

2nd.Lawson(9,982)

3rd.FamilyMart(8,281)
4th.CircleK Sunkus(6,257)
5th.Ministop(1,978)
(http://blog.livedoor.jp/tenmethods/archives/51806353.html)

I was surprised that FamilyMart is the second most popular convenience store, but sales is not No.2. I wonder if people don't buy at a store though they like the store. My faborite convenience store is FamilyMart, so I want FamilyMart to win all rankings.

-Faborite Rice Ball Ranking 2011.12.15-

1st.boiled rice mixed with chicken and vegetables(Seven Eleven)

2nd.baked rice ball with soy sause of sea tangle flavor(CircleK Sunkus)

3rd.yakiniku of Korean flavor in rice ball(Seven Eleven)

(http://mognavi.jp/ranking/31/2)

-Faborite Bread Ranking 2011.12.15-

1st.whipped cream and custard cream in danish(Seven Eleven)

2nd.wet banana in muffin(Lawson)

3rd.melonpan(CircleK Sunkus)

(http://mognavi.jp/ranking/31/2)

I want FamilyMart to rank in the rankings. The 4th and 5th of bread ranking are commodities of FamilyMart, but the 4th and 5th of rice ball ranking are commodities of Seven Eleven. I think that Seven Eleven is strong.

History

The birthplace of convenience store is America, and "Southland Ice" is the first convenience store. Southland Ice was selling ice at first and gradually would be to sell food and daily necessities everyday. Southland Ice was named "Seven Eleven" later after that the business hours of that is 7 a.m.-11 p.m. In Japan, the first convenience store is said that "Mammy" which was established in 1969. Next, "Coco Store" was in 1971, "Seico Mart" was in 1971, "FamilyMart" was in 1973, "Seven Eleven" was in 1974 and "Daiei Lowson" was in 1975.

Precisely, convenience store is retail shop which does business for hours all the year round, is small shop and sells mainly food and daily necessities. The abbreviated desinations of convenience store are "konbini" and "CVS", and were "konbi" and "supermarket opened until late at night" by 1980s.

Most of convenience stores are managed as chain store by major companies. FamilyMart is the subsidiary company of Seiyu, Seven Eleven is Itoyokado, Lawson is Daiei, Circle K is Uni and Mini Stop is Aeon. However, Daily-Yamazaki and Sunkus are not subsidiary companies of supermarket and department store, and the former is that of Yamazakipan and the latter is independently.

Coco store at Fujiyamadai of Kasugai is said to be origin of Japanese convenience store. The Coco store opened in July 11th, 1971.Kasugai city is in Aichi prefecture. This year is 40th commemoration. I think that it is good to visite the place if you have time.