An average 7 Eleven store in Hong Kong has between 200 and 300 magazine titles – many more than you will see in a 7 Eleven store back in Australia. They’re displayed as shown in the photo:
Many magazines are sealed, even non adult product. The manager I spoke with told me this was to stop people reading them. Not all stores I saw had the magazines bagged this way.
While Hong Kong leads the world in many areas, magazine retailing is not one of them based on the displays I have seen. However, considering that they carry barely 20% of what you see in an average newsagency maybe they are leading. They control their range so it must be working for them.