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The supermarket and department-store sales slide in Japan continued last month, say industry bodies. There was little impact yet from the Premium Friday campaign launched last month by the government and business community to encourage people to spend more…
Japanese department-store sales dropped 2.4 per cent in November from a year earlier on a same-store basis, down for the ninth consecutive month. Overall sales at 234 outlets run by 81 companies stood at ¥525.7 billion (US$4.6 billion), the Japan Department…
Losses have forced two Seven & I store closures in regional Japan, both outlets after 40 years of trading. Seven & I Holdings, which owns the Sogo and Seibu department store chains, is closing a Sogo store in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, and a Seibu store in…
