Originally Posted by
LapLap
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Poor employees, what a horrid time of the year to be made redundant. I hope they get decent severance packages

Used to be part of the Daiei Group but now it is owned by Zensho:
http://www.zensho.co.jp/en/group/index.html
I would think (but stand to be shouted down

) that they will simply turn the spaces (70+ or so) into another of their chains branches....and if not then transferring the the employees elsewhere in the group.