The storm of distribution-revolution has been overshadowing the retail business in Japan for the past few years as in many countries abroad. Even such an extreme argument has come about to be expressed that in the near future the Japan's retail business would be wholly predominated by the American-born retail form of big-sized and self-service system, that is, supermarket, discount-house, SSDDS and others. True in America such big-sized self-service form of retailing is now making up an overwhelming share in the retail business and appears to be further expanding. However, whether this fact is applicable to our country as it is, or whether it can serve as a blueprint for our future retail business- these problems permit no immediate answer, leaving much room for reflection on the peculiar features of our country. So in this paper we want to consider future courses of our retail business in connection with surrounding peculiar conditions in Japan.