"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:rbi8ov440d0ognnkmm06u8f59c1hoht2d2@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:48:55 -0700, "Bryce"
> <fukuzzz@takethisout.hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on
> going with:
>
> >> eleven in the evening. The chain used to be owned by the Southland
> >> Corporation but several years ago was purchased by Daiei. So while it
> >> used to be appropriate to laugh at Japanese who reported they had
> >> visited America and were surprised to find 7-11s there, such is no
> >> longer the case. It now *is* a Japanese company.
> >>
> >
> >Doesn't IYG Holding Company own Daiei and is owned by Ito-Yokado Co.,
Ltd.?
> >Which means Ito-Yokado owns all the 7-11's in Seattle?
>
> That's them! I missed a level.
> >
> >On a side note:  7-11 opened it's 20,000th store in Tokyo in 2000.
>
> Come on, now. I may be a rube but no way am I going to believe there
> are 20,000 7-11s in Tokyo. It just seems that way.
>
>

No, I meant the 20,000th in the world.

>
>