[murderfs]

There are over 12,000 7/11s in the United States, and probably hundreds of thousands of competitors (certainly if you include gas station stores). The thing that's different about Japanese convenience stores is that, 24/7, they sell food that's incredibly high quality compared to what you can get in American convenience stores at extremely low prices, and that doesn't seem to be the case for Zabka?

[Symbiote]

I think what stands out is that American 7/11s sell particularly low quality food.

Americans focus on Japan, but they could make the same comparison with many other countries.

Maybe because it's OK to be worse than Japan (it's Japan! The orient! The mystery!) but embarrassing to be worse than Poland.

[kalleboo]

And you do see a bunch of articles and videos online about Buc-ee's