{"id":116980,"date":"2015-01-16T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T05:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116980"},"modified":"2015-01-16T07:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T05:28:27","slug":"sony-closing-stores-wants-to-refocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/116980-sony-closing-stores-wants-to-refocus.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony closing stores, wants to refocus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp. says it is closing all 14 of its retail stores in Canada as it refocuses its business.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese electronics company said Thursday that the closures will result in 90 layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Ved Khan says the stores will be closed over the next six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Corp. has been scaling back its business in Canada for the past year and has already shut several locations.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer currently has stores in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Vancouver, Toronto and Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said customers will still be able to purchase merchandise through third-party retailers and its website.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Sony news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/116584-they-destroyed-everything-sony-pictures-ceo.html\">They destroyed everything: Sony Pictures CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/116268-sony-smartwatch-3-steel-edition-launching-soon.html\">Sony SmartWatch 3 steel edition launching soon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/116264-sony-bravia-tv-revamp-for-2015.html\">Sony Bravia TV revamp for 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp. says it is closing all 14 of its retail stores in Canada as it refocuses its business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":77750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3298,7979,193],"class_list":["post-116980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-canada","tag-quicknews","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}