Sentos have cut operating hours and welcomed fewer customers, with some deciding to fold amid the energy crisis
Monthly delivery has been halved from about a tonne, leading the number of customers of the family-run 97-year-oldsentoto fall to around 10 per day.
“It’s a major blow,” its 57-year-old operator, Atsuko Matsui, told the news agency. “If we are told [by the supplier] ‘this amount at this price,’ we have no choice but to accept it.”
Like Iketsu,sentosacross Japan have had to shorten opening hours or close temporarily as the global energy crisis bites.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
