Japanese Convenience Stores: Shorter Hours
Today almost all the 50,000 stores run by the big three convenience store chains operate 24-hours a day, but franchise owners everywhere are...
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Uniqlo Japan’s Most Valuable Retail Brand
Interbrand’s annual valuation of top brands saw growing numbers of Japanese firms in retail and FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) enter its global...
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Who Will Win the Cashless Wars in Japan?
Astonishing as it may seem but 80% of all retail transactions in Japan are made with cash and 88% if you include the cash stored in so-called...
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Loyalty Points In Japan: More Loyalty, More Points and the Conduit to Cashless Payments
Japan has a vast number of competing loyalty programmes and until five years ago Japanese consumers would often have as many as 10 loyalty point...
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Smartkarma’s Week that Was in JP/KR: Nexon, Rakuten, POSCO and Samsung Electronics
Below is the list of the Japan/Korea-related posts put on the Smartkarma platform during the week of March 4th:
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