{"id":117908,"date":"2019-02-05T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=117908&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T02:24:13","slug":"fukuoka-city-retail-sales-up","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-city-retail-sales-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka City Retail Sales Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by the Japan Department Stores Association, in 2018, sales at four department stores in Fukuoka City totaled \u00a5212 billion, or 2.9% more than the year before. While the figure has increased for two consecutive years, sales at department stores in other parts of Kyushu and Okinawa has declined for 13 years in a row. Purchases by international visitors continue to increase and totaled \u00a5339 billion nationwide with over five million customers. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.depart.or.jp\/cgi-bin\/dl.cgi?key=eJXDte1OJi31pBFlkFdBJi9lzoosE8tA7QSWBObJYyHz%2B%2FspcB%2BY28vvRiCF%0Abt%2Bw3a%2BKSTn0bjOUg8gMw1hQEdbI2OaUWzkIjiy2UNw9T7nVNnAT2ZQ3WjsU%0Ar3N1y16s0E56uyY0Q4aFUH7vlEqcEa%2FWP%2BYg8sZPsyDoMN1s%2Bo8%3D%0A\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Department Stores Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fukuoka-retail-005.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fukuoka-retail-005.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fukuoka-retail-005.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fukuoka-retail-005.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fukuoka-retail-005.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <em>Photo for image purpose only.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by the Japan Department Stores Association, in 2018, sales at four department stores in Fukuoka City totaled \u00a5212 billion, or 2.9% more than the year before. While the figure has increased for two consecutive years, sales at department stores in other parts of Kyushu and Okinawa has declined for 13 years in a row. Purchases by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":117909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-117908","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/117908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}