TOKYO —

Major Japanese retailers Aeon Co and Ito-Yokado Co will offer additional discounts to pass on benefits from the yen’s advance to consumers.

Aeon will expand the coverage of its discount campaign by 300 items from 1,000 at present. Margins of price cuts will range from 10% to 30%. The expanded campaign is set for Saturday through Feb 28.

Ito-Yokado, a unit of Seven & i Holdings Co will launch a second discount campaign involving a price reduction of up to 30% for 50 items for six days starting Wednesday.

JCN

2 Comments

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  some14some at 07:17 AM JST - 29th October

  waiting for govt cash-coupons (impatiently) as Yen is falling back from 90 to 98 per US$ :) afraid discount offers may expire soon.

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  barfly08 at 04:49 PM JST - 29th October

  "Major Japanese retailers Aeon Co and Ito-Yokado Co will offer additional discounts to pass on benefits from the yen’s advance to consumers."

  Really ? Just what American products do these supermarkets sell ? This is gonna be one skimpy discount promo ! Lemme see, Campbells soup, Skippy peanut butter, and... er, um, ahem ???

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