On Seibu Department Store Closing Its Doors.

Yesterday Seibu Department Store @ Yurakucho closed its doors to the public. Although I never got the chance to visit, it's always sad to see big stores closing because of bankrupcy. A year and several months in the consumer biz, I'm pretty sure that one business' loss is another gain. I wonder who bid to get the space Seibu is vacating. The flight of department stores in Japan (and I guess in the states as well) is so bleak, feet traffic is declining year after year after year. As opposed to the Philippines where most of the business success stories come from departments stores. Yes, department stores (or malls as we fondly call them) are some of the biggest income generating businesses anywhere you go in the pearl of the orient. I guess its because the people behind the malls recognized that poor Filipino families would like to go somewhere cool, where they can spend the whole day doing lots of things, for a cheap price. Must have in the Philippine malls are supermarket, fast foods, movie houses, spas, recreational areas (like your pachinko & gaming centers), aside from the basics. I haven't fully gasped what the Japan market is, but I think the major problem is I don't think Japanese seriously know what they want, they opt for 'generics', being the jack of all trades, forgeting to focus on what's essential and what really deeply matters to them...Well, I'm sure its not statistically credible to base my assumptions thinking about my 2 ex-es, but then again, it's just the tiny little bulb light in my head. Sometimes I hope Japanese would look at us Pinoys, they'll be surprised to learn a thing or two (and this goes for my 2 ex-es as well).

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My 1st ex Y got in the picture because I saw him yesterday. He's changed a lot, he's 大人 now. I was really happy to see him. I was rushing to a dental appointment we didn't get a chance to chat, but it was so good to feel no remorse, no hurtful feeling against him. Y and T are the same in so many aspects (even the cheating part). I hover nothing against Y now, and I sincerely hope that someday if fate would have it that I'll be seeing T again, I really hope that I feel happy and glad to see him, the way I felt with Y yesterday. But then again, I felt Y's honest apology for what he did before we parted ways. T never apologized ....