is a Japanese
supermarket
A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earli ...
chain operated by . The company was acquired by
H2O Retailing in 2014, making it a wholly owned subsidiary, to raise its profile in the Kansai region.
It operates the Qanat department stores as well as separate Izumiya grocery stores mainly in
Kansai region
The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropolita ...
. It also issues the
Izumiya Club Cards, the Izumiya credit cards (
VISA
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*Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company
** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
*Travel visa, a document that allows ...
/
MasterCard/
JCB) and the Izumiya
ETC
* Etc. or et cetera, a Latin expression meaning "and the other things" or "and the rest".
ETC or etc may also refer to:
Companies and organizations
* ETC (Chilean TV channel), a Chilean cable television channel
* ETC (Philippine TV channel), a P ...
cards.
The first Izumiya department store vested abroad is in
Suzhou
Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...
,
Jiangsu province
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its ca ...
, China.
References
External links
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Supermarkets of Japan
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Japanese supermarkets
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