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7-11s and Family Marts appear to be closing in droves in the (no) tourism areas of Pattaya.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I hallucinating (again)?

I can certainly understand any and all kinds of businesses closing in this current environment, but I'm finding this rather shocking.

You know, 7-11s and Family Marts have been like Starbucks in Seattle. Everywhere!

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6 minutes ago, Susco said:

That is what happens if you have a franchise from a company that opens a new franchise next door, as soon as you make 40K profit a month.

 

So you can't build up a reserve for lesser times as they are currently.

 

In the non tourist areas of Pattaya are living loads of Thais that are affected by the lack of tourists

Are they also closing in the non-tourist areas as well? 

These are like little everything in life centers for lots of people.

It's not "convenient" if they're not nearby anymore. 

Plus all the lost jobs for their hard working long suffering staffs. 

This is something I've just noticed in the last week or so.

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1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Are they also closing in the non-tourist areas as well? 

 

Isn't that what you said in the OP?

 

14 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

7-11s and Family Marts appear to be closing in droves in the (no) tourism areas of Pattaya.

 

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2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

No. I was being too clever by half by saying (no) tourism to indicate that there are no tourists in the tourism areas.

 

I admit, I missed that one, but my reasoning still stands, and even more so in (no) tourist areas

 

3 hours ago, Susco said:

That is what happens if you have a franchise from a company that opens a new franchise next door, as soon as you make 40K profit a month.

 

So you can't build up a reserve for lesser times as they are currently.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

I live in both places. 

 

Is that what they mean when saying, someone has a split personality?

 

 

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1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

In the town I grew up in there was one 7-11. But it wasn't an  everything shop like in Thailand. Main reason to go was for the slurpees and the porn magazines. (Before internet natch.)

 

 

Most Japanese 7-11s still do a roaring trade in porn and hentai magazines - cultural icons 

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6 hours ago, Ron jeremy said:

So they opened  these 7/11s to change big bills?  ????????????????????????

really?

No but that turned out to be a way to attract more customers...if you may have missed it 7 will always give you change for big bills whereas mom and pops rarely have change,

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8 minutes ago, pomchop said:

No but that turned out to be a way to attract more customers...if you may have missed it 7 will always give you change for big bills whereas mom and pops rarely have change,

I find massage shops are the best place to change 1000 notes!

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9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

7-11s and Family Marts appear to be closing in droves in the (no) tourism areas of Pattaya.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I hallucinating (again)?

I can certainly understand any and all kinds of businesses closing in this current environment, but I'm finding this rather shocking.

You know, 7-11s and Family Marts have been like Starbucks in Seattle. Everywhere!

I saw a closed Starbucks too... no real surprise when anything closes in a tourist area w/o tourists... a bit of an inconvenience if you have to walk an extra half-block for a 7/11... 

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9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

7-11s and Family Marts appear to be closing in droves in the (no) tourism areas of Pattaya.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I hallucinating (again)?

I can certainly understand any and all kinds of businesses closing in this current environment, but I'm finding this rather shocking.

You know, 7-11s and Family Marts have been like Starbucks in Seattle. Everywhere!

 

I've seen the same thing. Years ago I saw the Subway Sandwich near the Walking Street entry had closed and I was shocked. Those places NEVER close!

 

Now, the subject stores are shuttering their windows, and with them the associated ATM's. You're not imagining things, it's happening.

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Still opening new ones in our little town. Started off with 2 ( directly opposite each other ) then another opened a year ago near the post office. Now there is a new garage opening in town with a 4th 7/11 and an Amazon.

Our little night market is booming like never before and at 5 pm is mad busy.

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These are just normal adjustments to an economy that has shown a contraction of 8%, after years of steady growth, what would you expect?

 

It is also obvious that Pattaya would be first in line for bankruptcies and other business closures. Just let us hope that the authorities will step in to prevent this place to repeat the horrors of before Covid era.

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Well they have popped up and multiplied everywhere like mushrooms after the rain and there is a bigger copycat like the Thai people so when hard time came, something had to give...

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11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Are they also closing in the non-tourist areas as well? 

These are like little everything in life centers for lots of people.

It's not "convenient" if they're not nearby anymore. 

Plus all the lost jobs for their hard working long suffering staffs. 

This is something I've just noticed in the last week or so.

Is it surprising ,i cant see how they keep going anyway ,we used to shop at 7/11 near us ,then another opened ,then one across the bloomin road from it ,then a family mart and a tesco , same like the coffee shop ,opened up ,next thing 3 off them ,.its stupid here .

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9 hours ago, Ron jeremy said:

So they opened  these 7/11s to change big bills?  ????????????????????????

really?

Is where I go to break a 1000 bill......they can take away the Family Marts but I draw the line at 7-11 and doraemon stamps!!!! ????

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