SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Late night shopping at a local convenience store will now be possible without the help of staff – and you can leave your wallet at home, too. South Korean credit card company Shinhan Card Co., in tandem with BGF Retail Co., the operator of convenience store chain CU, recently [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain CU and local delivery service provider MG Playing have launched a new short-distance, on-foot delivery service. MG Playing assigns deliveries to on-foot delivery personnel nearest to the destination (within a 1 kilometer radius) once an order is placed through the Yogiyo delivery app. When there are [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain Ministop Korea has announced that it will introduce new 24-hour meat vending machines. The vending machines, operated by fresh food platform Freshstore, will be set up inside each convenience store. Consumers will be able to purchase fresh meat including small packages of Iberian pork, pork neck [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Convenience store franchise 7-Eleven will offer a service where customers can borrow cell phone batteries at any of the 700 stores in the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area. By accessing Kokiri Box 2, a shared cell phone battery platform, customers can borrow cell phone batteries at a 7-Eleven store. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A convenience store franchise plans to hire local residents with ample knowledge about the neighborhood to deliver various products. GS Retail Co., an operator of the major convenience store chain GS25, will begin testing its new ‘Neighborhood Delivery’ service, which is open to all applicants without limits to time [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean convenience store’s 24-hour delivery service, covering the wee hours of the morning, is becoming popular among customers. GS25, a major convenience store chain, announced on Wednesday that it compared the volume of orders between stores running a 24-hour delivery service and the ones offering a delivery [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store franchise CU said Monday it has introduced a service at stores nationwide that allows customers to withdraw cash while making a purchase. Customers who pay with a credit card while purchasing goods at one of CU’s stores can also ask to withdraw cash at the same time. [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BGF Retail Co., the operator of convenience store chain CU, announced Tuesday that all of the spots in the ‘Oak Tree of Hope’ program intended for CU store owners and management staff had been taken only five hours after registration opened. The program involves growing an oak tree with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — GS25, a South Korean convenience store chain owned by GS Retail Co., opened a futuristic convenience store without a checkout counter in Jung District, Seoul on Tuesday. The store, which is located in the headquarters building of a local credit card company BC Card, is similar to Amazon Go, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent trend of value consumption, which stresses the importance of emotional satisfaction, is widely spreading and penetrating the convenience store ice cream market. According to convenience store chain 7-Eleven, the portion of high-end products in its overall sales of ice cream stood at 23.6 percent this year. The [...]