Everyone’s a fan of convenience. We live in times when every need, every fancy, every craving must be satisfied in an instant. This is probably one of the reasons why, in the past few years, the country has been witness to the remarkable growth of the 24-hour convenience store chain called Ministop.
To Ministop, the offer of convenience is nothing new. The store chain was conceptualized nearly 30 years ago in Japan as “a store where everybody stops by for a minute” to purchase anything they needed.
Ministop is one of the companies under the AEON Group of Companies, one of Japan’s largest retail groups today. The store proved to be so popular when it opened its first store in Yokohama that in just five short years, there were over a hundred Ministop stores across Japan. In 1990, Ministop established its first overseas store in Seoul, South Korea. To mark the new millennium, AEON Retail Group’s Ministop Company Ltd. Japan partnered with Mitsubishi Corporation and Robinson...