The day a checkout screen became a ¥5,000,000 ad slot
As in-store ad budgets move from paper to signage, what should printers chase if not “surface area”?
7-Eleven’s POS checkout screens are now being sold as advertising inventory. In the media kit, the rate card lists an ad price of ¥5,000,000 (about $33,000, approx.). The same material also names the delivery footprint as “about 47,000 POS registers with ad screens.” When in-store ad spend shifts from paper to digital, the work that remains for printing companies tends to move away from “printing” and toward implementation and operations.
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Is ¥5,000,000 expensive—or cheap?
On jeki (JR East Japan Planning)’s media detail page, the ad fee for “POS Register Ads: Slot 1” is shown as ¥5,000,000 (publication date unknown / BPJ checked the public page as of 2026-08-18). ※1 The delivery target is listed as “about 47,000 POS registers with ad screens” (publication date unknown / BPJ checked the public page as of 2026-08-18). ※2…
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