someone unable to fulfil their shopping needs (esp. in areas of depopulation or due to lack of transport); people who have been cut off from the retail sector; (lit.) shopping refugee
bad smell; affectation; fulsomeness
grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely
Sustainable Development Goals; SDGs
unsympathetic manager; section chief with a heart of stone
MagiClean wiper mop; Easy Sweeper mop; Swiffer Sweeper floor mop
sun symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)
Fuwa-chan (stage name of Haruka Fuwa; 1993.11.26-)
foreign company; overseas enterprise; overseas firm
customer service office; CSO
there's but a fine line between genius and insanity
major power outage; massive blackout
non-standard product; non-standard goods
The Flea Waltz (piano piece); Der Flohwalzer; Chopsticks (UK)
wet; moist; soft-hearted; tender-hearted; sentimental
brick and mortar business; bricks and mortar business; physical retail store (rather than online)
management base; business foundation
to begin to like something (one did not initially like); to gradually become enamoured with something; to have something grow on you
to resign oneself (to); to reconcile oneself (to); to accept (e.g. defeat); to give up
ditch; drain; gutter; trench
the 8 districts of feudal Japan
shredded and dried squid (a snack)
Labour Thanksgiving Day (national holiday; November 23) (Labor)
white bean jam; sweet white bean paste
introducing (a bill); presentation; departure on a journey
melt-in-the-mouth feeling
selling like hotcakes; explosive sales
full automation; becoming unmanned; making (something) unmanned
poor business performance; economic slump
business magazine; financial magazine; economic magazine
indiscriminate imitation; monkey see, monkey do; blind follower