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Thai customers walk inside a 7:11 store in Bangkok. A man busy on his phone exits from the store. 7-Eleven is a Japanese-owned American international chain of convenience stores, headquartered in Irving, Texas. The chain was known as Tote'm Stores until it was renamed in 1946. Its parent company, Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd., operates, franchises, and licenses some 64,319 stores in 18 countries as of January 2018. Seven-Eleven Japan is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Seven-Eleven Japan is held by the Seven & I Holdings Co The first store opened in 1989 on Patpong Road in Bangkok. The franchise in Thailand is the CP ALL Public Company Limited, which in turn grants franchises to operators. In January 2018 there were 10,300 stores in Thailand. 7-Eleven holds a 70 percent market share in the