Lawson Starts a demonstration experiment to deliver groceries etc. Alliance with Uber August 29, 15:20

A major convenience store, Lawson, has partnered with a company that provides home delivery services, and has begun a field trial of a service that delivers food in the store to designated locations.

Lawson has partnered with Uber, a courier service, and has begun a proof-of-concept trial of groceries and daily necessities at four stores in Tokyo from 29th.

When you order a product using a smartphone app, the product arrives at a designated location such as your home or work.

At a store in Shinagawa, Tokyo, when an order from a customer entered a dedicated tablet, employees collected the product from the store and delivered it to a deliveryman.

The target is about 100 kinds of rice balls, lunch boxes, drinks, and daily necessaries such as tissues.

In addition to the price of the product, the user will pay a delivery fee of about several hundred yen depending on the distance from the store and the congestion situation.

Lawson will continue the experiment until the end of November after increasing the number of experiments to 13 stores in Tokyo.

While looking at demand, we want to expand into large metropolitan areas such as Osaka and Nagoya where it is easy to secure delivery personnel.

“It is necessary not only to set up the store but also to leave our customers close to the store as the real store and net barriers disappear,” said Yasuji Yoshida, general manager of Lawson's Last One Mile Business Unit. I would like to expand the service while considering. "