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Family Mart relaxes customer service rules in recognition of clerks who aren’t native Japanese speakers, also allows dyed hair.
At Lawson convenience stores, they’ll hand you your coffee, and you’re gonna like it, dammit.
When you stop and think about it, putting pictures of cockroaches on a product for people who hate them is kind of a weird strategy.
Video game giant continues to be a customer service titan as it restores fan’s original model 3DS.
Shelf-stocking technique has some saying they’ll never shop at the branch, or even the chain, again.
Manners maketh the man. Unless he’s at a convenience store, according to some Japanese social media users as debate over manners erupts.
Seniors especially irked by the mechanical process, but most people agree it’s kind of pointless anyway.
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