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