Wangfujing () is a Chinese

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based in

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. Through a joint venture with Japanese department store

Ito-Yokado is a Japanese general merchandise and department store, originally founded in 1920. In 2005, it was reorganized, as part of a corporate restructuring, as a subsidiary of the Seven & I Holdings Co. As of March 2013, there are 178 Ito-Yokado ...

, Wangfujing Yokado opened China's first full-scale food supermarket. Both companies each have a 40 per cent stake. Japanese supermarket operator York-Benimaru Co. has the remaining 20 per cent. It welcomes more than 10 million customers per day. It uses

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services from IBM.

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Wangfujing Department Store
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