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It is getting cold recently, and Lawson has started a Korean food fare to help us fight off the winter months. It snowed last friday for the first time this year. Some of these goods might help out. Can you guess why the ogre face [...]
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A little bit of time since the last post. I will try and keep up from now on.
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An interesting selection this week mainly from Natural Lawson
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The lights might be dimmed in most stores, but the food is still looking good. Lots of interesting items this week. Enjoy.
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A short Conbini Monday this week due to the Public Holiday and lots of other activity going on, but the selections are pretty interesting. See if you can find any of these in your local store.
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With the Site down until yesterday due to hackers getting in and drinking all the beer, I have didn’t get chance to put up the latest conbini monday article. Here are all of the pictures I took at conbini stores while I was away [...]
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A couple of items from a Natural Lawson for this week with lots of Sake thrown in for fun. It was raining in Tokyo today, but its always sunshine at the local conbini. I started my day with a cup of hot tea and an egg muffin at Natural [...]
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This week’s Conbini Monday features a Happy Lawson store from Yamashita Park, Yokohama. As Golden Week has started in Japan, many stores are not stocking a full range of goods and new products are thin. This Happy Lawson store [...]
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It looks like Rilakkuma is back in force this week at Lawson. Not only has Lawson got a line up of breads with Rilakkuma displayed on, but other brands have now started to see the Rilakkuma value and are buddying up fast. There was a [...]
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I went out to Chiba at the end of last week to play golf and snapped a few interesting items in the local Chiba convenience stores. Many items are the same as central Tokyo, but a few caught my eye that I hand’t seen before. Hope [...]
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Lots of goodies for todays conbini monday. I almost forgot about it, since it is a holiday in Japan today. Lucky the convenience stores are all open no matter that everyone else gets the day off. I went to Natural Lawson for a number [...]
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This conbini monday falls on the 1st day of March. I can’t believe 2 months of 2010 are already gone. Another month and we will be 25% through the year. Wow!! As well as the new food and drink, there are always some old favorites [...]
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Following up on yesterday’s Conbini Monday article which showed a number of One Piece, I went back for a more detailed look at the campaign and to find out a bit more information about other upcoming One Piece events. This is a [...]
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Are convenience stores in your part of the world always changing their items, or do they pretty much stock the same things all year round. One of the reasons I like going to the convenience stores so much is they always have the latest [...]
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If its sweets you are looking for, then this week won’t disappoint. Put your main meal away and dig into a few of these filler upper snacks. As always, there are plenty of drinks to help you wash down the tasty treats. Ava round [...]
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Rilakkuma and Lawson have got together again to bring out some Rilakkuma corn potage and chocolate marshmallow snacks, just in time for Halloween. Since I have had so many great entries to the giveaway contest, I have decided to add [...]
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With the convenience store wars heating up, its worth reviewing some numbers, and introducing the players behind the stores. Mitsubishi Shoji have a 32% shareholding in Lawson and a 10% holding in ampm. The sale/merger of ampm with [...]
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Lawson convenience stores and Matsumoto Kiyoshi drug retailers have announced a tie-up to jointly make new stores selling both daily conveniences and over the counter medicines, as well as working on co-branded private label goods. [...]
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2 tasty treats for this weeks conbini monday, and a special Rilakkuma bottle top opener give-away from Lawson. Rilakkuma gets in other product side of conbinimonday this week as he is involved with Lawson to promote soft drinks. Here [...]
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A few years ago, with the postal service in Japan being scrutinized by politicians for privatization and everyone looking for ways to restructure the business operations, many local post offices were closed and the service of buying [...]
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I have written a number of posts about trips to the convenience store and talked about the regular change over of new products on the shelves providing marketing research for the manufacturers. After a number of requests for more news [...]
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Having visited the Rilakkuma store at Tokyo Station yesterday, I couldn’t resist taking this photo this morning as I enjoyed some toast and honey with the new Rilakkuma collection. I started to put some photos up on flickr from [...]
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Lawson seems to be firmly tied up wtih San-x and the Rilakkuma Bear now. Every time Lawson comes up with a new promotion Rilakkuma looks to be their lead off hitter. The current promotion is a connected to the Lawson Point Card with a [...]
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Lawson has a promotion on at the moment giving away free packets of Rilakkuma bath salts when you buy some candy. Rilakkuma was created by San-x 5 years ago in 2003, and supposedly was created with the idea of getting Japanese office [...]
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