1.   Analysts expect sales continued to decline in June because shoppers were affected by a typhoon that swept through Tokyo on a Saturday, normally a busy shopping day.

2.   Analysts expect that sales continued to decline in June because shoppers were affected by a typhoon that swept through Tokyo on a Saturday, normally a busy shopping day.

3.   When people hang out on the streets, it affects the shoppers.

4.   Dorothy Kosinski, curator of European art at the Dallas Museum of Art, said the art may affect shoppers on a subliminal level.