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Kura Sushi has announced it will refund customers who missed out on the 10% discount that was supposed to apply during its collaboration with the character franchise Chiikawa, after the discount failed to be applied at some locations. On 5ch, users shared information suggesting the missed discounts were concentrated among customers who paid with something other than cash, sparking discussion over how the chain would handle cases where customers can no longer produce a receipt. The thread also split over whether refunds should even extend to customers who visited purely for the “Bikkura Pon” prize gacha included with sushi orders — with one lawyer’s view that “the contract is fulfilled once the ordered sushi is served” clashing against the counterargument that “the prizes have real value now that they’re priced on flea-market resale apps.”
What people said
I've eaten 100 million plates
Whoever's in charge of corporate planning must be a bunch of idiots
Garbage company run by incompetents
It's the ultimate move: guarantees you cut costs while still looking like you're showing good faith, way better than just actually giving the 10% off properly. Why wouldn't they do it.
The discount only failed for customers who paid via mobile payment or e-money — cash customers got the discount fine. Sounds like HQ rolled out the discount without giving stores enough time to update their POS systems.
Sounds like the type who'd always pick the wrong choice in an adventure game
Then, right when everyone's long since thrown away their receipt, they go 'oh we totally meant to give you the discount~ we'll refund you if you still have your receipt~' — hilarious
Re: #31
It literally says that's fine
Peak stupidity
Of course people will go
Most people don't expect much from the gacha part anyway — they go for the flat-rate stuff you're guaranteed to get 100% of the time
They should deduct our transportation costs too
Isn't it because some registers are self-checkout and others are staffed?
so they ran the 10% off sale before operations were actually ready
and now they're getting slammed for it
Might've been better not to rush it at all
If they hadn't rushed, all the fish they stocked up on for the collab would've gone bad
It's bad optics when the reasoning is that transparent
Who exactly are they apologizing to with a 10% discount — that's really all it amounts to
Re: #83
Wasn't this supposed to be a long-running collab?
Can they really move all that stock with just a two-day-ish sale?
I honestly wonder why they're still working there
Whoever embezzled brought it on themselves, but there must be plenty of people who work honestly there too — feel bad for them
Right when the collab made things insanely busy, it got abruptly cancelled
then suddenly this 10% discount comes out of nowhere and throws the stores into chaos
and on top of that there's this whole discount screwup
I don't know how the staff put up with it
Well, they can't exactly just suddenly quit and become unemployed
Stuff like this is exactly why Nagano (Chiikawa's creator) would win for sure if she sued for damages
Yeah, of course it's getting refunded
Kura Sushi apparently has locations in all 47 prefectures, so that's something at least
You did eat the sushi though, right? 😎
'Additive-free,' huh? Watch your words
You'll get sued
It's free of the 'big four' additives
They haven't released data on other additives, but if you make baseless claims about it you'll get sued
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/daba14df5fb60d97857635a0a98511cb79c91570
Sounds like refunding the Bikkura Pon prize is legally tricky
There's also an article where a different lawyer says that argument doesn't hold up anymore, since flea-market apps now clearly establish a market value for these prizes
That won't fly given that 'Bikkura Pon Plus' (a paid version of the prize gacha) exists
Their stance seems to be that it's the staff's fault for not handling it properly
Background and Key Points of Debate
“Bikkura Pon” is a prize lottery available at chains like Sushiro and Kura Sushi, where customers get a chance to win prizes tied to their sushi orders — this time themed around the Chiikawa collaboration. The thread split mainly over two points. First was the question of who exactly was affected by the missed discount: posters shared that cash-paying customers had the 10% discount applied normally in-store, while only customers who paid via e-money or mobile payment missed out due to a gap in the POS system settings. The second point was the legal basis for refunds, with lawyers split between the view that “the contract is fulfilled once the ordered sushi is served, so there’s no obligation to refund the prize” and the counter-view that “the prize’s value can’t be dismissed now that it’s openly priced on flea-market resale apps” — neither side was settled within the thread. Though not mentioned in the original article, campaigns like this often run into ambiguity under Japan’s Premiums and Representations Act over where a “freebie” ends and a “product” begins, which is part of why companies tend to end up reacting after the fact rather than getting ahead of it.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Good News] Kura Sushi to Issue Refunds!!!!“
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