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In a collaboration campaign between Kura Sushi and Chiikawa, multiple people have complained on social media that they didn’t get a single figure even after spending over ¥10,000 on food — and now complete five-piece sets of the supposedly rare figures have turned up for sale on Mercari, fueling suspicion that store staff have been pulling them out themselves. On 5channel threads, some pointed to the capsule design itself as the real problem, since a hole in the capsule lets you tell what’s inside from the outside, while others speculated that only someone at the store-manager level — not part-time staff — could realistically pull this off. Many were also stunned that one Mercari seller explained their reason for listing the items as “a relative works at Kura Sushi.”
9/3 (Thu) 11:55
Regarding the ongoing collaboration campaign between Kura Sushi and “Chiikawa,” multiple people on social media have said, “I didn’t get a single figure even after spending over ¥10,000.”
Complete five-piece sets of these “rare” figures have also, for some reason, shown up for resale on flea-market apps, sparking a backlash on social media.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
I haven't won one of those in like 5 years
Seriously?
Or like a Pokémon card pack?
Just sell them normally
Trash company
Even if they sold them normally, people would just buy them all up anyway
Banning it wouldn't bother anyone, would it?
Ban the merch production entirely
You're an idiot for buying something when there's no way to prove what's actually inside
Apparently there's a hole in the capsule that lets you identify which bag has the figure in it
So any staff member doing the restocking could supposedly pull them out
Yeah, agreed
Mailing them out would be the best solution
Maybe that's what set this whole thing off
The "spend ¥3,000, get a clear file folder" promo isn't new — they've run the same thing before with Demon Slayer and Detective Conan collabs
A manager could get away with way more shady stuff behind the scenes than a part-timer ever could
That's true of pretty much everything
Even with civil servants or police, the people at the bottom are closely watched and have no real power
It's usually the higher-ups with actual authority who end up causing the trouble
If anything, only someone at the manager level could pull this off.
With convenience-store lottery tickets, staff can just buy them outright with their own money.
Kura Sushi's system doesn't work that way.
Nah, it's the rice that's bad
Nigiriya Tokumai
Toto-maru
Uochu
Sushiro
Hamazushi
Kappa Sushi
Kura Sushi
something like that, rice-wise
Never even heard of the first one on that list
Franchises sometimes have to resort to stuff like that just to turn a profit
That's also why convenience-store franchise owners get their collateral seized and get replaced
Kura Sushi only operates company-owned stores, no franchises
Guess he got fired from Kappa Sushi and now works at Kura Sushi lol
straight-up, honestly answered "a relative works at Kura Sushi" — I'm dying
you'd have to be pretty dumb to pull something like this in the first place
Seriously?
I bet he still doesn't get what he did wrong
If he'd just said "I ate a ton of it," fine, but there's zero upside to lying and saying "my relative works there" instead — wonder what he's gonna do now lol
Can't believe someone's that dumb lol
Could've just said his family of 10 went twice a day
Had no idea collecting those could actually be worth money
He probably had no choice but to say something, since otherwise it'd look like straight-up fraud.
There's no other explanation for how he'd have that many complete sets to sell.
Background and Key Points of This Controversy
This controversy exposes a structural weakness in probability-based “lottery-style” promotions. If the capsules holding the figures have a hole that lets you identify the bag inside from the outside, then anyone on the store side handling restocking would be able to pull them out. As pointed out in the thread, Kura Sushi runs every store as a directly-operated location rather than through franchises, so unlike convenience-store lottery-ticket theft cases, if such removal really did happen, it could raise questions about the head office’s own management oversight. That said, the Mercari seller’s stated reason — “a relative works at Kura Sushi” — is simply the seller’s own claim, and as of this writing it hasn’t been confirmed whether store staff were actually involved. Kura Sushi has not yet issued any official investigation results or statement, so it’s worth noting this remains in the realm of allegation for now.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Spent ¥10,000 and Still No Chiikawa Figures — Five-Piece Sets Flooding Mercari, Kura Sushi Staff Suspected of Pulling Them Out.”
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