Department stores still drive retail sales growth in Japan – for now
Inside Retail
JULY 10, 2023
Japan’s department stores bear a striking resemblance to cruise ships: they’re big, luxurious, move glacially and serve an ageing customer. And only a small part of this productivity growth was ‘survivor bias’, the tendency of productivity to increase among the survivors as weaker stores are closed and drop out of the survey.
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