便利店(convenience store),简称CVS,顾名思义,是一种以提供便利、及时、全天候、全方位服务为主,主要面向社区居民的微型商业零售企业。1927年,美国的桑斯兰德公司在得克萨斯州的达拉斯城开办了世界上第一家便利商店。为了突出便利店从早七点到晚十一点的营业特点,1947年桑斯兰德公司更名为“Seven-Eleven”,在随后的半个多世纪里,这种独特的商业零售模式风靡全球。迄今为止Seven-Eleven公司在全球已有18000个零售点,遍布日本、澳大利 Convenient stores, or CVS for short, are, as its name implies, mini-commercial retailers that provide convenient, timely, all-weather and full-service services primarily to community residents. In 1927, the United States Sunsland Corporation opened its first convenience store in the world in Dallas, Texas. In an effort to highlight the convenience store’s operating characteristics from seven o’clock to eleven o’clock, the name Sansilander was renamed Seven-Eleven in 1947 and for more than half a century this unique commercial retail model swept the globe . So far Seven-Eleven has 18,000 retail outlets worldwide, all over Japan, Australia