New store opening in FamilyMart in Tokyo Ota Ward is a convenience store on the first floor and a fitness gym on the second floor, and opened to the press before a full-scale opening on the 14th of next month it was done.

Although Jim is a small facility with a size of about 230 square meters, there are 20 kinds of equipment including running machines and dumbbells, as well as lockers and shower rooms, which are open 24 hours a day as convenience stores.

The convenience store on the first floor has a special corner for handling training shirts and protein drinks for users of the gym.

Small-scale well-equipped 24-hour gyms are gaining popularity, especially in urban areas, and the company wants to increase these stores to 300 shops nationwide over the next five years.

President Takaharu Sawada of FamilyMart said, "The awareness of customers' health is rising, and we are expecting a gaming effect by fitness gym."

The competition in the convenience store industry is intensifying competition with online shopping and drugstores, so-called existing store sales except for new shops are decreasing for the first time in three years, and each company combines new services, There is a series of movements aimed at raising the ability to attract customers.