Week 1: History

  Do you know the history of the convenience store? But you use convenience stores almost every day, probably you don't know details of it. When young persons like us was born, convenience stores has already existed. When were the convenience store born why and where? On this topic I explain it.
  First, I explain the first convenience store. The world's first convenience store was born in Texas in the late 1920s. In the United States where its country is large, and a residential area and commercial areas are often far, it was common that people bought daily necessities at a time regularly in a supermarket. There were a lot of cases that a thing necessary accidentally was not prepared by the bulk buying. In response to the sudden demand, it is a convenience store to have developed as the shop which can purchase minimum daily necessities. It is Southland ice company established in United States Texas Dallas in 1927 to have produced convenience stores. John Jefferson Green which ran a retail store of ice making company of Southland ice company conducted business day after day for 16 hours without a holiday in the summer of the long drought. In summer of 1927, he suggested to the company that I wanted to sell food or other belongings in response to the demand of the customer and was accepted. On May 1, 1928, he paid 1000 dollars as a share of the sales to the company based on a promise. Convenience store business was born with this.
　By the way, do you want to know the Japanese first convenience store than it. So I also want to explain it. But I cannot necessarily decide which the first convenience store is because there are few related documents and the definition of convenience store are vague. But I think in consideration of all and I try to explain the history in Japan. The first convenience store in Japan was born at Tajimi station in Gifu in 1962. This convenience store was created  by people concerned with train service. But the My shop created in Osaka in 1969 may be the first Japanese case. And in 1971 Cocostore was born in Aichi, in 1972 Family mart was born in Saitama, and in 1974 Seven eleven was born in Tokyo.
  Most Japanese people would think that the convenience store had been born in Japan. However, actually, it is not so. Japanese-style convenience stores heavily influenced those stores in other Asian nations, such as Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, and China. However, Japan has the thing which I contributed to in every thing as well as today's convenience store business. It is the POS system which Seven-Eleven introduced in 1982. It is the first among the world to have utilized POS information for marketing called the merchandising.
 We receive a lot of benefits of such ancient people. It will be a very important thing to know these history as one human being I live in today, and uses a convenience store. (504)