Ito-Yokado Co., Ltd. (株式会社イトーヨーカ堂, Kabushiki-gaisha Itō Yōkadō) is a Japanese general merchandise, shopping center, grocery store 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 February 2023, there are 126 Ito-Yokado stores operating in Japan.
[1] Ito-Yokado entered the Chinese market in 1997, opening the first store in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
Inside Ito-Yokado, the staff working at the register can play instrumentals of famous musical pieces, which is a code to workers in the store for specific things to do.
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