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Forbes I got it @ 7-eleven
"A new channel for e-commmerce is headed for the U.S. One of North America's most pervasive retailers, 7-Eleven Inc. (6,200 units), will be installing ATM-like machines in its stores that will be Web-linked. These personal transaction terminals will be tied into a delivery and payment system that promises to make 7-Elevens a depot for e-commerce."

"A flaky idea? Well, it's working in Japan. Ito-Yokado Corp., a retail giant that owns the 7-Eleven chain in Japan plus 72% of the U.S. chain, now feels ready to export Web-updated aspects of the home operation. In Japan, where convenience stores are in nearly every urban neighborhood, they are used to pay routine bills such as those for utilities and to pick up and pay for sundry deliveries.

"How can Amazon.com be selling so much and still losing money? "They have a giant warehouse so they have to pay rent, pay wages for warehouse employees and carry a huge amount of inventory at their own risk, because not every book is going to get sold," says 7-Eleven Japan Vice Chairman Masaaki Kamata. "The Internet is not a manufacturing and warehousing business but an intermediary commission business.""

The New York Times E-Commerce the Japanese Way
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"Tucked amid the instant noodles, pantyhose and canned drinks at the local Lawson, Japan's second-largest convenience store chain, customers now find a computer terminal that gives them access to a system called Loppi. With a few stabs at the keyboard, they can order concert tickets, make train and plane reservations and pay at the cash register on the way out.

Need a book? Seven-Eleven Japan, the country's largest operator of convenience stores, lets a customer hop online to eShopping Books, a site owned by Softbank, Seven-Eleven, Yahoo! Japan and Tohan, Japan's leading book distributor. A day or so later, on the way home from work perhaps, the customer picks up the selection and pays for it at the local Seven-Eleven."

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