Japan to crackdown of Wal-Marts and Costcos
“Whoopie, fuck Wal-Mart!” is what I hear a lot of you saying.
No me. Japanese retail prices are the ban of life in Japan: $50 melons, $10 for a single bite of cheese, $12 for a box of cornflakes, and of course, $60 for a sack Dioxen-tainted rice. Japan needs more big suburban stores, not fewer. You won’t believe the weekends crowds at COSTCO Japan’s stores. I have to fight 40-90 minute lines of people at Costco Machida.
Japan to crackdown on big suburban stores
Daily Times – 26-7-2005 —-Japan will try to stop the building of big shopping centers and hospitals in suburbs in hopes of halting the exodus from city centres before the population begins to shrink….
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport would together submit legislation before parliament next year to tighten regulations against large new commercial and public facilities in suburbs, a trade ministry official said….
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