Covid-19 forces Japan's notoriously fussy food shoppers to abandon doubts about online grocery stores
FILE PHOTO: A shopper wearing a protective mask pushes a shopping cart at Japan's supermarket group Aeon's shopping mall as the mall reopens amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Chiba, Japan May 28, 2020.
Most companies won't disclose numbers, but retail executives and analysts estimate internet sales now account for about 5 percent or more of Japan's total grocery sales, compared with 2.5 percent before the pandemic. Although fears of shortages have subsided, online deliveries have made it easier as she works from home, making three meals a day for her family, including her 3-year-old son. She's also happy to avoid stores amid fears of infections.
Such changes are closely watched as Japan is one of the world's most valuable grocery markets, worth over 50 trillion yen a year. Per capita, only countries such as Switzerland, Norway and Israel spend more on food.Major Japanese supermarkets, despite talking about online services for years, have only recently begun large-scale spending on e-commerce infrastructure.
But the first of those warehouses won't start operating until 2023. In the meantime, Aeon said it is hiring more staff to help pack online grocery orders, although it is having difficulty hiring more delivery drivers.
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