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Inflation by stealth: How Japan's firms fight the frugal retail psyche

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By Kaori Kaneko

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 businesses in the world's third-largest economy are adopting new methods to lift prices, from artificial intelligence 

How about focusing global market instead only focusing on domestic one? Does AI tell that?

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How about focusing global market instead only focusing on domestic one? 

You think they can sell haircuts done in Japan to people in New York ?

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I haven’t been a barber shop in Japan in years as I cut my hair myself.

Savings are substantial!

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don't see how government says there's no inflation. prices haven't risen cause those sneaky retailers keep cutting the volume so you get less for the same money.

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