Convenience Store (mbth) is a physical store located near residential areas or a virtual store that provides online shopping. It refers to a small retail store or online store that mainly deals in instant goods or services, and takes the convenience demand as the first purpose, and adopts self-selection shopping.
On October 20 17 1 February1day, the English translation and writing standard for public services was officially implemented, and the standard English name of Convenience Store was stipulated.
Origin:
The rise of convenience stores is due to the large-scale and suburbanization of supermarkets, and the changes of supermarkets are reflected in many aspects, such as distance, time, goods, services and so on: for example, it is necessary to drive away from the residential areas of shoppers; The store area is huge, and a wide variety of goods consume a lot of time and energy of shoppers; There is also the pain of waiting in a "long queue" when checking out, which makes shoppers who want to buy a small amount of goods or meet their immediate needs deeply inconvenient. So people need a small supermarket that can meet the needs of convenience stores to fill the gap.
1927, South Company of Texas, USA pioneered the prototype of convenience store, 1946 created the first real convenience store in the world, and named the store "7-Eleven"; In the early 1970s, Ito Yokado of Japan signed a franchise agreement with American Southern Company and launched Store 1 in Toyosu, Tokyo. Since then, as a unique commercial retail format, traditional convenience stores have developed rapidly in Japan.
In the late 1990s, it entered China and developed rapidly in the coastal large and medium-sized cities with relatively developed economy in China. With the intervention of oil giants, convenience stores are more dispersed in geographical distribution, and gas station convenience stores have also shown strong vitality in Europe and America.