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The customer service aspect of the business also limits how staff can intervene. The role of convenience stores in crime prevention and public safety should only be a secondary function.

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Hosei University Graduate School logistics professor Yuji Namiki, an expert in convenience stores. Japan's convenience stores are taking on tasks once handled by the dwindling number of local police boxes, instituting measures to respond to emergencies such as responding to women and children in crisis, looking out for seniors suspected of suffering dementia and preventing youth crime.

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Govt just try to to put many task on convenient store for free, check public trash and toilet now also being handle by convenience store on top many things.

So it should be secondary or even, tertiary because those thing only courtesy from convenience store, not obligation.

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I wonder why there are fewer cops around when Japan's police budgets increase year after year, even though the population is declining.

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gosh! did 'Hosei University Graduate School logistics professor Yuji Namiki, an expert in convenience stores' figure out all by himself that convenience store workers shouldn't be engaged in "crime prevention and public safety" ? sheesh!

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