🏪How to start a convenience store business
Density of nearby residents + commuter foot traffic = revenue.
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What to look at when picking a location
The same factors apply in every city — the difference is how each city scores on them. Use the per-city links below to dig into your specific market.
- 🏠Residential density (500m)
Within 300m walk = primary catchment.
- 👣Foot-traffic proxy
Commuter morning / evening flows critical.
- 🚉Public transit
Near transit stop = +30% morning sales.
- ⚔️Direct competitors (1km)
Other convenience stores within 200m split the market.
Investment outlook
Common rookie mistakes
- ⚠Underestimating inventory cash tie-up (¥10-30万 always on shelf)
- ⚠Picking locations with no morning/evening foot traffic
City-by-city convenience store guides
Each guide weights the factors above using live OpenStreetMap data for that city.
- Convenience store in Auckland· NZ
New Zealand's largest city, a Pacific commercial hub with dense CBD precincts and rapidly growing fringe suburbs.
- Convenience store in Wellington· NZ
New Zealand's capital, with one of the most café-dense city centres per capita in the world.
- Convenience store in Christchurch· NZ
New Zealand's South Island gateway, rebuilt around a low-rise grid with strong retail clusters in the CBD and Riccarton.
- Convenience store in Sydney· AU
Australia's largest city, mixing global brands in the CBD with vibrant neighbourhood high streets.
- Convenience store in Melbourne· AU
Australia's café capital, famous for laneway commerce and dense inner-suburb retail strips.
- Convenience store in Brisbane· AU
Queensland's subtropical capital, with fast-growing retail across the river-spanning CBD and inner suburbs.
- Convenience store in Perth· AU
Australia's isolated western capital, where resources-sector wealth funds high-end CBD and inner-suburb retail.
- Convenience store in Adelaide· AU
A South Australian capital with a one-mile-square grid CBD and strong adjacent neighbourhood retail strips.
- Convenience store in Canberra· AU
Australia's planned federal capital, where district-centre retail outpaces a deliberately low-density CBD.
- Convenience store in Gold Coast· AU
A Queensland tourism-driven coastal corridor where retail flows along the beach and inland canal precincts.
- Convenience store in Hobart· AU
Tasmania's historic harbour-side capital, with a tight walkable centre fed by tourism and a growing food scene.
- Convenience store in New York· US
The world's densest commercial market, where street-level competition shifts block by block.
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