{"id":324590,"date":"2026-03-02T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:06:16","slug":"japan-survey-finds-more-than-half-of-people-use-%c2%a5100-shops-at-least-once-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324590\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Survey Finds More than Half of People Use \u00a5100 Shops at Least Once a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-series\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/series\/japan-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Data<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Lifestyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lifestyle<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Economy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMar 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tA survey in Japan found that more than half of people use reasonably priced \u00a5100 shops at least once a month, with kitchen goods the most popular purchases.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>  \t\t\t\t Just One Coin<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey conducted by the online research company MyVoice Communications, looking at how often people used \u00a5100 shops, colloquially referred to as hyakkin (from hyakuen kin\u2019itsu, \u201cuniform \u00a5100 pricing\u201d), the majority of respondents, at 25.4%, used them \u201caround once a month\u201d and a further 25.1% visited \u201cseveral times a month.\u201d When those who went \u201cthree or more times a week\u201d and \u201cone to two times a week\u201d were included, the rate of monthly use rose to 57.0%. More than 50% of men visited the shops; however, women were the more frequent users with over 60%.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted in January 2026, received responses from 11,280 men and women aged from their teens to their seventies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2960315.png\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2960315\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2960315.png\" data-libid=\"2960315\" alt=\"How often do you use \u00a5100 shops?\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within the past year, the products most often purchased were \u201ckitchen goods\u201d at 54.4%, followed by \u201cstationery\u201d (40.2%) and \u201ccleaning supplies and detergent\u201d (32.0%). At 70%, women stood out as the purchasers of \u201ckitchen goods,\u201d while older men tended to buy \u201celectronic accessories\u201d and \u201cDIY supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2960316.png\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2960316\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2960316.png\" data-libid=\"2960316\" alt=\"What do you purchase at \u00a5100 shops?\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked the reason why they used \u00a5100 shops (with multiple responses possible), 50.4% said \u201cthey\u2019re cheap, so I can buy things easily,\u201d 48.5% did it \u201cto save money,\u201d and 38.4% felt it was \u201cgood value for the price,\u201d indicating that the main draw for people was the sense of affordability. This did lead to harsh criticism as well though, including \u201cthe quantity or size is often reduced without warning\u201d and \u201cthere are products that cost more than \u00a5500, so it can\u2019t be called a \u00a5100 shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Data Sources<\/p>\n<p>(Translated from Japanese. Banner photo \u00a9\u00a0Pixta.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">shopping<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan Data Lifestyle Economy Mar 2, 2026 A survey in Japan found that more than half of people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,507],"class_list":["post-324590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}