The konbini is Japanese customer service exemplified. Customers’ ages and gender, as well as tomorrow’s weather forecast, is data that does not go unnoticed. The 7-Elevens in Japan are a bonafide business management case study due to their operating structures. Essentially, all of their point-of-sale information is collected and distributed to some sort of mega 7-Eleven headquarters (which I presume is located in a Robotic Castle guarded by a real life Transformer) for analysis and a near-precise matching of supply to demand, using additional data about the demographic of each area.