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The man who helped make 7-Eleven so popular in Japan has died.

Toshifumi Suzuki partnered with the US operator of 7-Eleven to bring the convenience store chain to Japan in 1973 and then went on to revolutionize the use of sales, customer, and inventory data to help make the stores a popular source of cheap and easy meals for locals, and a must-stop destination for tourists. Suzuki was 93 years old.

A man walks out of a 7-Eleven convenience store along a street in central Tokyo.
A man walks out of a 7-Eleven convenience store along a street in central Tokyo.
Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP via Getty Images
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