"From Flowers to Gold Bars"... Convenience Stores' Family Month Gift Battle

CU, Toy and Carnation Sales
GS25, Over 100 Planned Products
Emart24, Karaoke Box Launch

Convenience stores are selling a variety of gifts such as gold bars, luxury goods, health supplements, and home appliances in celebration of Family Month.

Gold Carnation Badge. [Photo by Seven Eleven]

According to the industry on the 5th, CU introduced about 20 character collaboration products as Children's Day items. Notable examples include Baby Shark mini cars, Pok?mon face figures, Pikachu automatic bubble guns, Jjanggu mini cars, and Esther Bunny random keyrings, which are exclusively sold and pre-released by the company. For Parents' Day, they are selling carnation artificial and fresh flowers, red ginseng, massage chairs, and more.

GS25 prepared over 100 planned products for Family Month. In line with the recent trend of gold preference, they are selling two types of carnation gold bars weighing 3.75g (415,000 KRW) and 7.5g (804,000 KRW). Regular gold bar products are available in various weights ranging from 1g to 37.5g (141,000 KRW to 3,925,000 KRW). Customers can pre-order and pay for the carnation gold bars at nearby stores and receive delivery to their designated location within about 7 days.

Seven Eleven is offering two limited-quantity pure gold products: a gold carnation badge and a gold bar featuring the Year of the Rabbit (Gyemyo year). Additionally, they are selling about 50 items by pre-order, including Korean beef gift sets, carnation money boxes, Apple tablets, and luxury wallets.

Emart24 introduced a unique product by partnering with TJ (Taejin), a karaoke equipment specialist, to launch a karaoke box. This product consists of a TJ B2 accompaniment device, monitor, high-power amplifier, speakers, wired microphone, remote control, mirror ball, and songbook, allowing customers to enjoy singing indoors with soundproofing. The karaoke box is available in three types: single-person (2,980,000 KRW), two-person (3,480,000 KRW), and three to four-person (3,980,000 KRW).

A convenience store industry official said, “As ultra-high-priced products such as gold bars and electric vehicles are being sold, we continue to introduce high-priced unique products,” adding, “We will continue to offer various products and events to establish ourselves as the closest and most familiar shopping platform.”