--FILE--View of a Rilakkuma-themed convenience store run by Lawson in Shanghai, China, 21 November 2013. Lawson, the Japanese convenience store chain, is slowing its expansion in China because it thinks the Chinese government has not done enough to spur consumption in the worlds second-largest economy. Takeshi Niinami, Lawsons chief executive, told the Financial Times that Lawson had decided to push back its plan to open 10, 000 stores in China by 2020 to about 2025. It currently has 384 stores in the country. Lawson would focus in China for now on the four big cities ¨C Shanghai, Chongqing, Dalian and Beijing, where it already has fully owned stores ¨C but eventually would look to open stores with local partners in three or four third-tier cities around the country, he said. Mr Niinami said he had originally expected that rising wages in China would feed more quickly into higher consumption, instead of going into real estate.
