Family Mart Doesn't Want To be Confused With Sex Business

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Family Mart has complained to the owner of three Okayama sex club information booths which go by the name of "Galmy Mart" and use the same font and colours as the convenience store operator. Family Mart claims that customers, including children, have accidentally gone into the booths, believing them to be genuine shops. The owner will consider a change later this month. A similar problem sprang up a few years ago when a booth in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, mimicked the HMV shop sign.

Asahi story in Japanese here.

[Taro Toporific]

[Okayama sex club information booths which go by the name of "Galmy Mart" and use the same font and colours as the convenience store operator.
asahi.com.

At first I couldn't figure out what the Japanese joke that was implied by "Galmy" except BALMY Mart.



It's hard to associate the feeling of slutty delinquency that Gal/ギャル has in Japanese when my grandmothers always refer to "going out with the gals" to the Olive Garden after church.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Oh, now I get it. Thanks, Taro. Galmy Mart? What a sutpid fucking name.

[succubusqueen]

the owner lacks imagination & creativity when it comes to design.

[Mulboyne]

Another place with a convenience store front has been busted in Osaka, where police have been cracking down on all sex club guide services. A few days ago, another such establishment with a takoyaki stall outside was busted.

[IkemenTommy]

In the last pic, you got the bastardized Family Mart and Lawsons rip-off but they left out 7-11.