Sales SC Down 5.6% This May
Estimated Total SC Sales Figure Totals 2,176.8 Billion Yen
(Down 4.8% Compared with Same Month Last Year)
In spite of positive factors such as an extra Saturday and Sunday, a larger number of holidays compared with the same month last year, and the many days with fairly fine weather, the total sales figure realized this May by existing shopping centers ended up falling by 5.6% against that for the corresponding month of the previous year, thereby remaining negative for a ninth consecutive month.
Factors such as governmental economic measures and private consumption stimulation packages failed to dampen a growing consumer concern with safeguarding their livelihood in the light of a worsening employment situation eventually leading to reduced income. This tendency brought on favorable sales of low-priced products of the PB kind but kept sales of high-priced items down.
Additionally, the fact that the new type A (H1N1) influenza virus scare caused customer numbers to fall in the Kansai district SC and the fact that in the framework of the governmental economic measures, highway toll rate reductions merely kept customers from using the train, thereby negatively affecting customer numbers for SC in the central cities, also led to large overall sales decreases.
＊This survey has been compiled from information obtained after sampling 1,000 SC according to location and size from among 2,877 SC - the total number of SC at the end of December 2008.
＊This survey is based on the 573 SC samples obtained, the sample retrieval rate being 57.3%.
＊(Estimated) total sales of SC for May have been computed based on the total number of 2,893 SC in existence at the end of April 2009.
We announced at the JCSC general meeting in May 21, 2009 that the total number of SC at the end of December 2008 was changed to 2,980 by the new adaptable standard of the SC. However we used the figures by the former standard in this survey.
Term/Year/month (Number of SC) |
S C |
Department Stores |
Chain Stores | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Previously Established SC | |||||||
| Total of SC | Tenants | Anchor Tenants |
|||||
| Year | 2000 | (185) | -3.4 |
-3.1 |
-3.7 |
-2.2 |
-5.1 |
| 2001 | (255) | -2.2 |
-1.4 |
-3.3 |
-0.4 |
-5.2 |
|
| 2002 | (328) | -2.1 |
-2.1 |
-2.1 |
-2.3 |
-2.1 |
|
| 2003 | (462) | -1.6 |
-0.8 |
-2.4 |
-2.8 |
-3.2 |
|
| 2004 | (522) | -1.7 |
-0.9 |
-2.9 |
-2.8 |
-3.5 |
|
| 2005 | (550) | 0.3 |
1.5 |
-1.9 |
-0.2 |
-2.6 |
|
| 2006 | (523) | 0.3 |
0.9 |
-0.7 |
-0.7 |
-2.7 |
|
| 2007 | (515) | -0.0 |
0.3 |
-0.6 |
-0.5 |
-1.4 |
|
| 2008 | (553) | -1.5 |
-1.1 |
-2.3 |
-4.3 |
-0.7 |
|
| 2009 | Jan.～Mar. | (533) | -6.7 |
-6.0 |
-8.3 |
-11.2 |
-4.0 |
| Month 2008 | Jan. | (592) | 0.0 |
0.3 |
-0.5 |
-2.1 |
-1.7 |
| Feb. | (585) | 0.8 |
0.4 |
1.4 |
0.9 |
1.9 |
|
| Mar. | (587) | 2.3 |
2.6 |
1.6 |
-1.2 |
1.4 |
|
| Apr. | (575) | -2.5 |
-3.0 |
-1.5 |
-3.4 |
-0.8 |
|
| May. | (581) | -2.3 |
-2.1 |
-2.6 |
-2.7 |
-1.1 |
|
| Jun. | (592) | -2.9 |
-2.7 |
-3.1 |
-7.6 |
-0.9 |
|
| Jul. | (585) | 0.3 |
0.2 |
0.5 |
-2.5 |
0.9 |
|
| Aug. | (572) | 0.3 |
1.5 |
-2.1 |
-3.1 |
-1.0 |
|
| Sep. | (580) | -1.9 |
-0.8 |
-4.2 |
-4.7 |
-2.2 |
|
| Oct. | (582) | -3.0 |
-1.7 |
-5.6 |
-6.8 |
-1.6 |
|
| Nov. | (571) | -1.3 |
-0.6 |
-2.9 |
-6.4 |
0.6 |
|
| Dec. | (580) | -5.4 |
-4.7 |
-6.7 |
-9.4 |
-2.8 |
|
| Month 2009 | Jan. | (567) | -4.4 |
-3.6 |
-6.2 |
-9.1 |
-2.7 |
| Feb. | (570) | -7.5 |
-6.5 |
-9.4 |
-11.5 |
-5.4 |
|
| Mar. | (573) | -8.3 |
-7.6 |
-9.6 |
-13.1 |
-4.0 |
|
| Apr. | (567) | -5.6 |
-5.1 |
-6.8 |
-11.3 |
-3.7 |
|
| May. | (573) | -5.6 |
-5.2 |
-6.5 |
-12.3 |
-2.0 |
|
| Source | Japan Council of Shopping Centers | Japan Department Stores Association |
Japan Chain Stores Association | ||||
Constituent member of SC Location (Number of SC) |
Total | Tenants | Anchor Tenants | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | (573) | -5.6 |
-5.2 |
-6.5 |
|
| Central Areas | Large Cities | (78) | -7.1 |
-7.1 |
-5.0 |
| Medium Cities | (84) | -6.6 |
-5.1 |
-9.7 |
|
| Small Cities | (34) | -7.7 |
-8.0 |
-7.2 |
|
| Sub Total | (196) | -6.9 |
-6.6 |
-8.8 |
|
| Peripheral Areas | (141) | -5.7 |
-5.3 |
-6.4 |
|
| Suburban Areas | (236) | -4.5 |
-3.3 |
-5.8 |
|
【comment】
Sales figures of anchor tenants were bad with -6.5%.
Among these, sales in central areas showed a worst with -8.8, and sales of SC with anchor tenants such as department stores or GMS were sluggish.
(notes)
■Size of City
Large Cities ： Cities designated by government ordinance (Sapporo, Sendai, Chiba, Tokyo metropolis, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Kitakyushu)
Medium Cities ：Cities that have a population of more than 150,000, excluding above‐mentioned cities
Small Cities ：Cities that have a population of under 150,000
■Location （Divided by administrative district
Central Areas ：Central cities that are accumulated by commercial function of cities, towns, villages concerned
Peripheral Areas ：Areas that are around central areas and city function of commerce, administration, business, etc. exist moderately
Suburban Areas ：Areas that are in the suburbs and residential areas, farmlands, etc. are spread out
Region Location (Number of SC) |
Total | Hokkaido | Tohoku | Kanto | Chubu | Hokuriku | kinki | Chugoku | Shikoku | Kyusyu・ Okinawa |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | (573) | -5.6 |
-0.3 |
-2.8 |
-6.3 |
-4.7 |
-5.3 |
-7.6 |
-4.9 |
-4.1 |
-1.5 |
| Central Areas | (196) | -6.9 |
-1.9 |
-1.8 |
-6.3 |
-7.1 |
-7.3 |
-11.6 |
-4.9 |
-4.5 |
-5.6 |
| Peripheral Areas | (141) | -5.7 |
4.3 |
-5.4 |
-5.8 |
-8.7 |
-6.1 |
-7.3 |
-1.7 |
-6.1 |
-2.8 |
| Suburban Areas | (236) | -4.5 |
-4.8 |
-2.7 |
-6.6 |
-2.8 |
-4.7 |
-4.7 |
-5.2 |
-3.5 |
3.2 |
| Number of SC | 573 |
17 |
31 |
200 |
61 |
44 |
126 |
29 |
17 |
48 |
|
【comment】
Sales in the Kinki region showed the largest decline with -7.6%.
A significant decrease in the number of customers of SC with a Kansai district location caused by a new type influenza A virus resulted in sluggish sales whereby mainly central areas with station buildings and underground shopping arcades were badly hit with a -11.6% result.
(notes)
■Region
Hokkaido ： Hokkaido
Tohoku ： Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima Prefecture
Kanto ： Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma,Saitama and Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo metropolis, Kanagawa and Yamanashi Prefecture
Chubu ： Nagano, Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi and Mie Prefecture
Hokuriku ： Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui Prefecture
Kinki ： Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama Prefecture
Chugoku ： Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi Prefecture
Shikoku ： Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi Prefecture
Kyusyu･Okinawa ： Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima and Okinawa Prefecture
Reference:
Contact below for any inquires in respect of the Survey.
Mr. Kotaro Zenpo of the Research Department
e‐mail address: zenpoh@jcsc.or.jp
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