Walmart Launches E-Commerce with Rakuten: The Last Chance to Make It in Japan?
Walmart (WMT US) has worked hard to bring its Japanese subsidiary, Seiyu, around since buying the ailing GMS retailer 16 years ago. While it has...
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Japan Retail Capital Expenditure to Jump in 2018
Major Japanese retailers are moving ahead with plans for large increases in capital expenditure in the current year, reflecting surprising optimism...
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Retail Ranking FY2017-18: Winners and Losers in Japanese Retailing
JapanConsuming’s retail ranking for FY2017 has now been compiled, and the results show that the retail industry enjoyed another extremely good year...
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Lawson Follows Seven Eleven into Promised Land of Mobile Conbini Shopping
After five years of lackluster experiments, Lawson closed its Lawson Fresh business this month, switching its focus to a successor service, Lawson...
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Last Week in Event SPACE: FamilyMart, Monex, Investa, Seven, Adeka, HK & Shanghai Hotels
Last Week in Event SPACE ... The MSCI A Share Phase II inclusion could be a damp squid There will be no near-term selldown in Familymart Uny...
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