百貨店で初売り　物価高、福袋にも値頃感

　東京都内の大手百貨店の初売りが２日、始まった。インバウンド（訪日客）需要に支えられ百貨店の業績は好調だが、物価高による節約志向も根強い。各社は食品や日用品を詰め合わせた値頃感のある福袋もそろえ、昨年を上回る売り上げを目指す。
　東武百貨店池袋本店（豊島区）では、午前９時半の開店を待ちわびる来店客で行列ができ、予定を２０分繰り上げた。お得感を打ち出した商品を中心に、福袋の店頭販売数を昨年比１割増の約２万個に拡充。７０代女性は「物価高を痛切に感じる中、普段より安く買えるので助かる」と話した。
　百貨店では、人手不足を背景に初売りを後ろ倒しする動きが広がっている。昨年まで元日営業を続けてきた西武池袋本店（同）は２日に、高島屋と大丸松坂屋百貨店は２日から３日にずらした。（2025/01/02-11:23）

Some major department stores in Tokyo opened Thursday for the first sales of 2025 as they focus on relatively inexpensive goods in an effort to lure budget-conscious shoppers amid higher prices.
   Stores mainly offer reasonably priced "fukubukuro" lucky bags containing food and daily necessities, aiming to achieve higher New Year's sales than a year before.
   Tobu Department Store Co.'s flagship Ikebukuro store in Toshima Ward opened at 9:10 a.m., 20 minutes earlier than planned as shoppers lined up outside the store before it opened.
   The store made some 20,000 lucky bags, many of which include reasonably priced goods, available for sale, up about 10 pct from a year before.
   A shopper in her 70s said, "It is helpful because I can buy goods cheaper than usual while I keenly feel high prices."