{"id":7494,"date":"2009-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/six-straight-months-of-sales-declines-for-large-retail-stores\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"six-straight-months-of-sales-declines-for-large-retail-stores","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/six-straight-months-of-sales-declines-for-large-retail-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Six Straight Months of Sales Declines for Large Retail Stores<!--:--><!--:ja-->Six Straight Months of Sales Declines for Large Retail Stores<!--:--><!--:ko-->Six Straight Months of Sales Declines for Large Retail Stores<!--:--><!--:zh-->Six Straight Months of Sales Declines for Large Retail Stores<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu\/Okinawa Prefecture region in January fell 3.9% from the year-before period to 140.8 billion yen. This marks the sixth consecutive monthly decline for the indicator. The downturn was particularly sharp for department stores, where sales fell 9.7%. Both a slump in consumption and poor weekend weather were cited as reasons for the declines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu\/Okinawa Prefecture region in January fell 3.9% from the year-before period to 140.8 billion yen. This marks the sixth consecutive monthly decline for the indicator. The downturn was particularly sharp for department stores, where sales fell 9.7%. Both a slump in consumption and poor weekend weather were cited as reasons for the declines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ko--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu\/Okinawa Prefecture region in January fell 3.9% from the year-before period to 140.8 billion yen. This marks the sixth consecutive monthly decline for the indicator. The downturn was particularly sharp for department stores, where sales fell 9.7%. Both a slump in consumption and poor weekend weather were cited as reasons for the declines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:zh--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu\/Okinawa Prefecture region in January fell 3.9% from the year-before period to 140.8 billion yen. This marks the sixth consecutive monthly decline for the indicator. The downturn was particularly sharp for department stores, where sales fell 9.7%. Both a slump in consumption and poor weekend weather were cited as reasons for the declines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu\/Okinawa Prefecture region in January fell 3.9% from the year-before period to 140.8 billion yen. This marks the sixth consecutive monthly decline for the indicator. The downturn was particularly sharp for department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-7494","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7494","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}