{"id":138140,"date":"2020-12-25T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T02:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=138140&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-12-25T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T02:21:58","slug":"sales-at-fukuokas-department-stores-recovering","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/sales-at-fukuokas-department-stores-recovering\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales at Fukuoka\u2019s Department Stores Recovering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Department stores in Fukuoka City report greater recoveries in sales compared to those in other regions in Japan. According to the Japan Department Stores Association, November sales at Fukuoka City-based department stores reached \u00a516.2 billion, only a 7.2 % decline from the same month in 2019. While C19 infection spikes continue in the areas of Tokyo (Nov. sales: -17.8%,) Sapporo (-33.3%) and other urban cities, comparatively stable COVID-19 situations in Fukuoka are thought to have contributed to greater sales. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20201222\/5010010360.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/department-store.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/department-store-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/department-store-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/department-store-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/department-store-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/department-store-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department stores in Fukuoka City report greater recoveries in sales compared to those in other regions in Japan. According to the Japan Department Stores Association, November sales at Fukuoka City-based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":138141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-138140","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\/138140","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}