7-Eleven to begin operating unmanned convenience stores in Japan

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20240202 Seven-Eleven unmanned store file photo

A customer pays with a smartphone at a Seven-Eleven Japan experimental store in Tokyo in preparation for unmanned operations.

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Seven-Eleven Japan, the country's largest convenience store chain, will begin operating small outlets without any storefront staff in the spring, Nikkei has learned.

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