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Japan Supermarket Business Sentiment DI

Name: Japan Supermarket Business Sentiment DI
Creator: 日本スーパーマーケット協会・オール日本スーパーマーケット協会・全国スーパーマーケット協会「スーパーマーケット統計調査」
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: 日本スーパーマーケット協会・オール日本スーパーマーケット協会・全国スーパーマーケット協会「スーパーマーケット統計調査」Last updated: Sep 24, 2026, 15:18Curated by Bui Thanh PhucAbout this data ↓

Indicator	07-2026	06-2026	05-2026	04-2026	03-2026	02-2026	01-2026	12-2025	11-2025	10-2025	09-2025	08-2025	07-2025	06-2025	05-2025	04-2025	03-2025	02-2025	01-2025	12-2024	11-2024	10-2024	09-2024	08-2024	07-2024	06-2024	05-2024	04-2024	03-2024	02-2024	01-2024	12-2023	11-2023	10-2023	09-2023	08-2023	07-2023
Business sentiment DI8
Business conditions at core stores: current	42.89	43.23	47.35	43.21	43.59	45.55	47.58	47.8	47.31	46.72	45.6	46.39	50.15	47.99	48.79	48.8	49.85	48.52	51.01	51.33	49.26	46.43	47.14	51.02	45.2	48.58	44.25	45.43	53.53	51.27	48.88	51.4	51.24	50.29	50.7	51.86	52.35
Business conditions at core stores: outlook	42.07	41.77	42.55	39.57	38.65	42.24	45	43.99	43.67	44.97	43.79	42.62	45.81	43.98	44.85	45.18	44.24	44.01	46.1	46.15	45.59	43.22	42.86	46.76	42.66	45.17	41.52	43.45	49.01	48.31	47.18	47.46	47.79	47.08	45.9	45.45	47.79
Consumers' willingness to buy: current	41.19	41.94	44.54	43.38	42.6	43.49	45	45.6	46.2	44.14	44.03	43.98	45.66	43.56	46.06	45.48	46.95	45.12	47.82	48.96	47.06	45.24	47.86	49.71	44.07	47.16	43.64	44.21	50.85	49.3	49.16	50.14	48.62	48.54	48.59	49.87	48.34
Consumers' willingness to buy: outlook	40.78	41.72	42.55	41.23	38.32	42.64	44.52	43.4	43.99	44.1	43.99	42.92	43.83	42.94	43.79	42.92	42.88	43.6	44.48	45.51	44.53	43.37	45	46.93	42.66	45.6	43.21	44.05	47.6	47.88	46.75	46.49	45.72	47.08	46.29	46.12	46.81
Competition in the surrounding area: current	43.5	42.26	42.22	41.39	42.11	44.18	44.84	43.87	45.57	44.14	45.28	44.43	45.51	44.72	44.85	43.94	45.09	45.09	45.66	44.82	44.41	44.31	46	46.37	44.57	45.45	44.68	44.6	45.9	45.93	45.37	46.91	45.58	47.06	47.6	46.14	46.41
Competition in the surrounding area: outlook	41.67	41.4	41.06	40.73	39.64	42.64	43.06	43.04	43.47	43.06	43.67	42.02	43.26	42.55	43.33	42.07	42.79	41.96	43.79	43.75	43.68	42.12	42.86	43.27	42.9	43.18	42.63	43.45	45.34	44.18	43.79	44.66	43.78	45.47	44.74	44.79	43.78
Economic conditions in the surrounding area: current	45.93	44.19	44.7	43.54	44.57	46.58	47.08	46.7	47.15	46.38	46.36	46.84	48.04	46.17	47.27	47.12	46.63	46.41	47.82	48.96	48.67	47.59	47.51	48.25	46.19	47.41	46.55	47.07	50.71	49.15	49.58	50	49.59	49.26	50	50.27	50.14
Economic conditions in the surrounding area: outlook	45.12	43.87	42.38	42.38	42.27	44.86	45.78	44.97	46.2	45.66	45.89	45.48	46.21	44.63	45.15	44.7	44.51	45.24	45.93	46.6	46.75	46.41	45.59	46.47	44.77	46.41	46.1	47.24	49.01	47.88	48.72	48.59	48.34	47.63	48.15	48.38	49.17
Business trend DI (vs a year earlier)7
Sales	-2.85	-5.81	8.83	-5.13	-2.67	-0.17	5.81	1.27	10.58	5.38	3.01	1.37	13.11	7.76	11.96	13.87	13.65	9.13	11.84	12.5	11.9	-2.86	3.3	12.43	-7.24	8.14	-0.14	1.23	14.91	13.14	4.55	8.19	8.71	11.98	9.75	13.78	11.66
Profit	-7.23	-9.44	2.03	-6.21	-7.55	-3.85	2.33	-1.92	5.96	1.41	-2.72	-4.91	4.6	-0.31	6.76	7.3	3.48	0.31	-0.9	1.38	0.91	-9.41	-0.44	6.29	-8.24	5.44	-1.61	-1.88	14.24	13.36	6.61	9.45	9.94	10.06	7.61	10.03	7.67
Purchase cost of fresh food	19.07	15.6	19.79	14.48	13.54	15.04	15.88	17.67	17.88	17.14	18.26	17.41	20.47	17.74	17.27	17.52	21.63	20.6	26.52	23.43	23.62	17.97	19.64	21.54	16.18	18.15	20.27	20.13	21.01	18.31	15.94	18.9	16.72	20.3	23.25	20.81	20.95
Purchase cost of food	19.28	18.12	20.8	16.61	17.53	18.17	21.11	21.83	20.67	21.01	23.18	19.9	25.31	21.73	25	25.48	23.2	22.15	22.38	21.38	23.27	19.97	19.09	20.43	16.92	19.39	19.13	21.04	21.56	21.62	18.24	21.78	20.49	23.79	25.15	24.3	23.98
Selling prices	17.28	16.56	17.83	17.45	16.72	19.41	20.94	20.83	21.43	22.2	22.29	20.65	24.39	22.97	24.37	23.92	24.07	23.94	23.67	22.42	21.52	16.31	18.53	20.03	17.14	18.82	19.8	21.3	21.84	20.26	19.97	23.88	23.88	25.74	26.57	25.96	25.56
Spending per customer	8.94	9.03	13.08	7.28	1.83	6.47	13.8	10.58	17.26	15.21	12.58	10.12	15.55	13.29	18.56	17.64	17.59	15.24	13.47	14.01	11.68	6.02	8.58	13.6	4.4	11.11	5.92	8.49	18.71	12.22	10.94	12.93	15.34	15.42	14.69	20.11	17.66
Customer numbers	-15.04	-13.23	-4	-11.26	-6.33	-7.57	-10.39	-9.46	-7.84	-7.87	-9.62	-8.44	-0.76	-5.06	-4.17	-2.74	0.31	-6.93	-2.79	-1.06	-0.6	-8.79	-2.87	2.49	-9.71	0.58	-3.82	-5.4	-3.14	3.41	-3.13	-2.54	-6.25	-3.72	-3.41	-3.78	-4.69

Latest reading

Business conditions at core stores: current stood at 42.89 DI in Jul 2026. That is −0.8% from Jun 2026 and −14.5% from a year earlier. The series on this page is monthly and runs from Apr 2011 to Jul 2026.

Latest: 42.89 DI; Jul 2026
vs previous period: −0.8%; Jun 2026
vs a year earlier: −14.5%

About this data

Diffusion indices from supermarket store managers: current and outlook business conditions, consumers' willingness to buy, local competition and local economy (sentiment DIs, 50 = neutral), and sales, profit, purchase costs, selling prices, spending per customer and customer numbers versus a year earlier (management trend DIs, 0 = neutral), monthly from April 2011. Joint monthly survey of the three Japanese supermarket associations (Japan Supermarkets Association, All Japan Supermarket Association, National Supermarket Association of Japan), covering about 270 member food supermarket companies.