Aeon: Where’s the Digital Strategy?
In 2017, Aeon (8267 JP) said it would spend ¥500 billion on logistics and digital infrastructure to grow online sales to ¥1 trillion by 2020.Two...
Japan E-Commerce: Digital to Influence 45% of All Retail Sales by 2025
E-commerce is set to account for 15% of retail sales in 2025, double the size of any other channel, and become the biggest channel for physical...
Who Will Win the Cashless Wars in Japan?
Astonishing as it may seem but 80% of all retail transactions in Japan are made with cash and 88% if you include the cash stored in so-called...
Loyalty Points In Japan: More Loyalty, More Points and the Conduit to Cashless Payments
Japan has a vast number of competing loyalty programmes and until five years ago Japanese consumers would often have as many as 10 loyalty point...
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