Increase in co-op orders “Placement” to be placed at a designated place without handing also 21:41 on April 9
Despite demands for self-restraint, going to Tokyo's co-op, which offers food and other goods, orders for food and other items have increased by about 30% from the previous year. In the future, in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, in principle, products will not be delivered directly, but will be placed in designated locations.
The Toto Consumer Cooperative provides food and daily necessities to about 110,000 households in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama.
According to the co-op, orders for products delivered from the 6th to the 10th of this week have increased by about 30% from the same time last year, especially rice and water in plastic bottles, and noodles such as pasta and instant noodles have increased significantly. That is.
On the morning of the 9th, at the delivery center, the person in charge loaded the ordered goods into trucks and visited the houses one by one to deliver the goods.
It is usually said that when delivering goods, they are usually handed, but in order to reduce human contact based on the declaration of emergency, in the future, as a rule, do not hand directly, put it in a designated place It is to do.
A user in his 70s said, "I don't want to get infected, so I refrain from going out.
Kenji Hirano, who is in charge of the home delivery business at the Tokyo Metropolitan Co-op, said, "I feel that the need for home delivery is growing as awareness of the need to go out due to an emergency declaration has increased. I want to respond. "