Emergency Declaration Convenience Store Continues Operation April 7 18:55
Convenience stores, in principle, will continue to operate even if an emergency is declared due to the spread of the new coronavirus.
Seven-Eleven, the largest convenience store, provides transparent curtains at checkout counters to avoid contact between customers and employees, and applies tape to the floor so that customers waiting for checkout can be lined up at intervals. I am.
At the store in Minato-ku, Tokyo, we taped the floor with a tape so that customers could wait at intervals while waiting for the cash register. In order to minimize contact between customers and employees, transparent curtains are hung from the ceiling of the cashier counter as a partition.
In addition, the seats in the eat-in space in the store are only opened one by one so that they can only sit down, so that customers are separated as much as possible in the store.
The company is considering doing this at other stores in the future.
A customer woman said, "I don't like people coming right behind when arriving at the cash register, so I'm relieved to keep an interval."
According to Shoko Suzuki, manager of Seven-Eleven Shibaura 4-chome store, "We are trying to make customers shop more safely while they are in business. "