Plan emerges for Japan retailer Seven & i to spin off noncore stores

The move is to avoid any foreign entities to buy over.

Who could buy retailer with Japan's demographics?

Japan depopulation will average, approx. 1.7M native citizens per year until 2060, and then approx. 1M/yr until 2100 = 100 million. How many migrants will move here?

If 2023 foreign immigration held constant = approx. 25M, for a total population of 45 million with median native population of age 75!!!

The problem is robots don't need to buy anything at stores, other than charging their batteries now and then!