The Japanese MGR sector offers little to be excited about, despiterngrowing economic sentiment and a large, wealthy consumer base.rnIn December 2013, Japanese supermarket sales fell by 0.8% y-o-yrnaccording to date from Bloomberg, the sixth time supermarketsrnsuffered a decline in 2013. This meant that the Japanese supermarketrnsector faced a total sales fall of 0.7% in 2013 according to ourrndata. Though many countries have experienced a similarly poorrnperformance in their supermarket sectors, high growth areas ofrnconvenience and discount stores have boosted overall MGR growth.rnHowever, a similar scenario in Japan has barely prevailed, with BMIrnestimating total MGR sales to have grown by just 0.4% in 2013 inrnlocal currency terms.
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