On: The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store

[coldtea]

How close another franchise would allowed to be should have been part of the contract when opening a store.

E.g. "no second franchize store in 1 mile radius" (of course this could differ from place to place based on market and population density).

[esrauch → coldtea]

When I was in Japan there were some cases of four 7/11s visible at once without turning my head, so I think you can set your sights a lot lower than a one mile radius.