And written in the first person, about the author's trip to Japan and Greece...? Maybe there's some licensing issue with using their own photos but it's very funny to pair the sentence:
> in a Tokyo 7-Eleven, and I am standing shoulder to shoulder with a dozen tourists, all clutching baskets loaded with the same things: fluffy egg mayo sandwiches, katsu curry buns, matcha Kit Kats and warm cans of Boss coffee pulled from heated shelves.
with a photo of someone standing in an empty supermarket, with no basket, buying tofu from a chilled shelf.
I live near the SF location and the biggest issues seem outside of their control: tax/import costs making things way more expensive than I know they would be in Japan plus spiky demand for the prepared food limiting the quality/quantity they can offer.
The main issue that's actually on them is the authentic Japanese aisle width which doesn't work at all for the size or manners of Americans.
I shop at the Sawtelle LA location regularly. They always have premium beef and fish cuts. Especially toro grade tuna. Demand isn't very spiky here. Every time I go there's a lot of people. They have Japanese Wagyu and most of the aisles are Japanese sourced. It's just that it's quite small.
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Three pictures from Getty Images and generic copy. Was this assembled by an AI?
An instagrammer visiting a konbini in Kyoto would be far more interesting.
(If you want that experience in coastal California, visit a Nijiya Market.)
And written in the first person, about the author's trip to Japan and Greece...? Maybe there's some licensing issue with using their own photos but it's very funny to pair the sentence:
with a photo of someone standing in an empty supermarket, with no basket, buying tofu from a chilled shelf.Back in the day it would just be called a "slow news day"
Nijiya is pretty good by American standards but I still find it lacking compared to actual Japan in many ways.
I live near the SF location and the biggest issues seem outside of their control: tax/import costs making things way more expensive than I know they would be in Japan plus spiky demand for the prepared food limiting the quality/quantity they can offer.
The main issue that's actually on them is the authentic Japanese aisle width which doesn't work at all for the size or manners of Americans.
I shop at the Sawtelle LA location regularly. They always have premium beef and fish cuts. Especially toro grade tuna. Demand isn't very spiky here. Every time I go there's a lot of people. They have Japanese Wagyu and most of the aisles are Japanese sourced. It's just that it's quite small.
BBC is literally trash, I just ignore everything BBC since a decade and have never regretted it
Not all slop content is AI generated. Remember the glory days of Buzzfeed? Stock images surrounded by puff pieces is quality pre-AI space filler.