{"id":220716,"date":"2025-06-28T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220716\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:13:09","slug":"department-stores-tax-free-sales-drop-as-tourists-shopping-patterns-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220716\/","title":{"rendered":"Department stores&#8217; tax-free sales drop as tourists&#8217; shopping patterns change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax-free sales at department stores nationwide are plunging due in part to a change in the shopping patterns of foreign tourists, prompting retailers to rethink their business strategies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Japan Department Stores Association, sales of tax-free products at department stores in May fell 40% year-on-year, with the decline being for the third month in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Broken down by category, general products sales, which includes luxury brands, decreased 45.6% from the same month last year, showing a slowdown in high-end items. The average amount each shopper spent was about \u00a579,000 ($546), down by about \u00a547,000 from May 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tax-free sales at department stores nationwide are plunging due in part to a change in the shopping patterns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,87179,87178,1700,21442,5006,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-consumption-tax","10":"tag-department-stores","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-retailers","13":"tag-tourism","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759755681393675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}