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7-Eleven to Add 2300 Stores by 2031

Growth set for North America, Japan after chain repelled takeover bid

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4 months ago

August 7, 2025

VMSD Staff

7-Eleven to Add 2300 Stores by 2031 — A 7-Eleven in its parent company’s home city of Tokyo. The c-store giant’s plans include expansions in Japan and North America. Photo: Tupungato/iStock by Getty Images

A 7-Eleven in its parent company’s home city of Tokyo. The c-store giant’s plans include expansions in Japan and North America. Photo: Tupungato/iStock by Getty Images

Seven & i Holdings (Tokyo) has unveiled a 30-page “transformation plan” that includes adding roughly 1300 of its new, large-format 7-Eleven stores in North America by early 2031. The company plans to accomplish that goal by adding 200 stores per year, with the goal of exceeding 50% coverage of the U.S. population.

Additionally, Seven & i will add 1100 restaurants to these stores for an eventual total of 2000 locations with such installations. Also, in its home market of Japan, c-store giant plans to add about 1000 stores during the same period.

Those ambitious plans have come to light just a few weeks after Canadian c-store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard called off its attempted $46 billion acquisition of 7-Eleven, saying its Japanese parent company failed to meaningfully engage in negotiations.

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