Posted on 02/05/2022 12:30:31 PM PST by mylife
With most people in Japan relying on public transportation to get around, between a Monday-to-Friday commute and weekend leisure outings it’s not unusual to pass through a train station almost every day. So if you’re going to be at the station anyway, why not get your grocery shopping done while you’re there?
That’s the idea behind a new partnership between online grocery seller Cookpad Mart and East Japan Railway Company (a.k.a. JR East). Ordinarily, Cookpad Mart customers pick up their orders from Cookpad lockers (you’ll sometimes see them inside convenience stores, for example), but the new service allows you to grab your groceries at the gate of JR East stations.
It works pretty much like the standard Cookpad Mart purchasing process: You log in, select your groceries, and then, for your pickup point, pick a station. Then once you’re at the ticket gate you show the confirmation screen on your phone to the station attendant, and you get your order. Pickup is available until 10 p.m., and with some Japanese supermarkets closing before then, the service is especially handy for those working late shifts who can’t make it to their local grocer after they get off work.
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Trains are the ideal mass transport - they are fast, eco-friendly, economical, safe - and now you can get your evening meal there too!
What a country!
How’s the high speed rail program doing out in Calif?
Can’t do that in big cities here, the food would be ripped from your hands before you could get it home.
I have read that America has the most efficient rail-freight network in the world. It hauls more goods per mile, and has highest profits, and highest returns on investment, of any system in the world.
Compare that with America’s passenger rail system, which is HIGHLY regulated and effectively government-owned.
The subways in Berlin had grocery stores in many stations when I lived there in the 80s.
“Trains are the ideal mass transport - they are fast, eco-friendly, economical, safe....”
Not in this country....here there an expensive loud fiasco of an embarrassment.
trains here used to take you to shopping destinations, they used to serve food too.
every depot had a cafe.
“How’s the high speed rail program doing out in Calif?”
They certainly are trying their best, but they simply are not finding many cows interested in commuting between Bakersfield and Fresno.
One of the key reasons that trains work so well in Japan is a a shortage of urban ferals who would make it a dangerous mode of transit.
Not in this country....here there an expensive loud fiasco of an embarrassment.
This is true. You nationalize transportation, it's a fiasco.
What next, comrades?
*thought* I know! Let's nationalize health care!
How do sardines carry groceries?
Translation:
Then I was in Tokyo in the late 60s, you could enter
the train station through the department store basements
and then walk underground to the next building/store.
Europeans do grocery shopping much differently than Americans. Typically they go grocery shopping almost every day and only get what they need for the next day or so. Whereas Americans tend to go once a week and fill up entire shopping carts.
Now since my children have grown up and moved out, my wife and I tend to hit the grocery story about every other day. We are only getting what we need for about a day or so - which is enough to fit in those hand baskets. We find that there is much less waste that way and we are getting much fresher produce and meats as they aren't sitting in the refrigerator for days on end and eventually going bad.
Now we still make a monthly trip to stock up on non perishable bulk items like canned foods, bottled water, paper goods and such. So we won't go hungry if some emergency happened where we could not get to the store for some time.
In some ways, Japan sounds like a haven of peace and prosperity. I wonder how they treat Christians. Not sure I could live in a paper house, or eat tofu.
There are FReepers in Japan. Hopefully they will chime in.
From people I know who’ve done business there, they are mostly indifferent to any kind of Christianity. They do love Christmas, in the Western commercial way.
they have trains down!
“I wonder how they treat Christians.”
A young white acquaintance took a trip to Japan thinking she might live there. Said she wasn’t treated well at all, they didn’t seem to like white people. But she’s a gay liberal so who knows what really happened.
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