One Victoria | 63 m | 19 fl | Complete

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When I was in Tokyo recently, walking to the Gotanda station, I counted four (!) Family Mart variety stores within the distance of maybe 300m.  Variety stores do huge business in Japan, but four stores so close together was still a shock.

Most franchisers will try to keep the locations somewhat separate to ensure the health of the individual franchises.  Two locations too close together are not good for anyone's business -- the question is just what constitutes "too close".

I heard that Starbucks sometimes aims for a saturation strategy where they put lots and lots of locations close by. This is of course bad for the individual franchises but helps the brand as a whole.

Starbucks doesn't franchise, possibly except for a few special situations like airports. That's part of how they're able to do saturation.