<![CDATA[Category membership is a brand of excellence and functionality of a closest substitute product. In this case,marketers sort product attributes or benefits into two points, point of parity and point of difference, in order to formthe frame of reference of the product. Frame of reference can help marketers to find out who its competitors are andwhere to position himself in the membership category. This study aims to examine the factors forming the 7-Eleven 'spositioning and to determine 7-Eleven 's category membership in the retail business in Indonesia. Both of these isvery important to investigate, because 7-Eleven is not nor in convenience store neither in food store anyway. Thisstudy uses descriptive method verification, which is implemented through field data collection by distributingquestionnaires to 150 respondents in three outlets, Matraman, Plaza Festival, and Farnan Menteng. Respondentswere selected at 1;andom, and who had been shopping at 7-Eleven. 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