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Japanese Retailing esses
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Japanese Retailing esses
Japanese Retailing esses
“To be known as a true global retailer we must be in Japan, the world’s second-largest economy.”1
– Charles Holley, Chief Financial Officer of Wal-Mart .
‘Foreign retailers have generally had a difficult time with Japan’s finicky consumers plex distribution
channels, and have more often than not turned tail and headed home.’2
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By 2002, JapanNot had For a $1 Reproduction trillion3 retail market. The Japanese retail market consisted of leading retailers like Toys ‘R’
Us4 and Seven Eleven In spite of a long economic recession in Japan since 1989-1990, retailing business has
increased manifold. Since the early 1990s, the retail market in Japan has faced petition from petitors
making it difficult for most retailers to eed in Japan [Annexure 1]. The retail sector has witnessed the rise and fall of many
companies since then and between 1999 and 2002, about 106,841 retail stores6 were closed down in Japan.
Big panies like ‘Daiei’7 , ‘Mycal’(supermarket chai