Inside Bic Camera Store Ahead of Consumption Tax Hike

Customers look at 4K organic electroluminescence (EL) televisions at a Bic Camera Inc. electronics store in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Overly optimistic views of how the economy would ride out the sales tax in 2014 left red faces in government offices and the Bank of Japan when the economy shrank 7.3% in its aftermath. This time round, Prime Minister Shinzo Abes administration has bent over backwards to ensure that the tax hike doesnt upend the economy at a highly vulnerable time. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images