Simple Mart to acquire OKmart for NT$125 million

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Buying a convenience store chain is a lot cheaper than I thought. Good reminder of how slim the margins must be.

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Darn. Maybe we at forumosa should get together and put in a competing bid. That’d be … well, not at all fun, but it would at least elicit some amusement.

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I guess it’s priced this way since most (all?) are franchised out.

It’s also not the most prestigious brand compared to 7/11 and FamilyMart. I remember some time ago it was ranked number one in violations for selling cigarettes to minors :D.

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My old workplace used to have one convenience store on site—OK Mart. The running joke was that this convenience store was . . . not OK.

What’s the next step? Making it not simple?

Guy

5

Cool. Now likely more branches island-wide to find SM’s good (and not expensive) foreign beers.

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Mine is it’s not great, just OK

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Would make the “which convenience store do you support” thread take on a whole new dimension

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OK Mart is the absolute bottom one of them all….. Hi Life actually has some good stuff, some interesting beers, but the real debate is between Family Mart and 7-11. Simple Mart is kind of a cross between a convenience store and small super market. They have good deals on stuff but they aren’t open 24 hours. I remember when I first got here, I thought it was “S-Mart.” Shop smart, shop S-Mart, ya got that?!?!?!?!? But unfortunately, they don’t sell any boomsticks. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/14ikjKhK7bI

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Sounds like a good move.

OK mart offers zero. Its 4th place after hi life which is at least slightly different to family mart/711. So it makes sense to take it and make it better somehow.

Simple mart is decent too. I go there quite often as they are nearer to my house than a supermarket and they have some different stuff I didnt see elsewhere.

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It seems that they rebranded, anyone saw the new Ok mart brand image? Looks very similar to some lawsons

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Is it great or just OK?

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So in Japan, there is LAWSONS and NATURAL LAWSONS.

Can we look forward to a similar brand differentiation in Taiwan between OK and NATURAL OK?

Guy

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OK Mart Shops
new Logo

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OK Mart debuted a new blue-and-white visual identity and a stylized graphic logo—described by internet users as looking like a fish—at its Banqiao Daren branch in New Taipei City, which serves as the brand’s first concept store

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Looks more like a coin laundromat

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Certainly looks water themed.

Well I’ve seen worse. Prosperty fucking plaza worse. So this is not that bad I guess. Curious to how it looks in the store.

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Is that a half-filled bed pan inside the O? Not sure what they’re going for…

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Naturally OK!

:+1:

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I admit I have my doubts. :neutral_face:

Guy

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Are you OK?

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I have been in an OK in my neighbourhood, and after that experience I am not sure! :runaway:

Guy