Falling passengers at stations and railroads Serious impact on the ekiben industry New Corona

Stations and railway passengers have fallen Serious impact on the ekiben industry New Corona 12:41 on May 1

With the spread of the new coronavirus, the number of passengers at train stations and railways has fallen sharply, which has a serious impact on the station valve industry.

According to JR affiliates and industry groups, the spread of the new coronavirus has led to a decline in the use of trains such as the Shinkansen, which has also caused a dramatic decrease in ekiben sales.

Among these, "Nipponbashi Omasu", a major bento manufacturing company in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo, is a long-established store with 120 years of history, and it has made many ekiben such as the famous Fukagawa Meshi ekiben in Tokyo. I am wholesale.

It is said that the sales of the new coronavirus started to drop sharply from around March, and the sales of last month fell to about 10% of the usual year.

Even more serious is the sharp drop in sales during this period of large holidays, "when cleaning".

This company says that it is filling up the off-season with sales during the long holidays and the Obon season, but on the contrary, it is in the red.

Therefore, in order to reduce the deficit as much as possible, the company is reducing the number of products such as ekiben manufactured from the usual 60 types to several types, and greatly reducing the production line and working time, but the impact is already huge. It's called.

This company says that after the Great East Japan Earthquake nine years ago, sales had recovered almost three months after the earthquake, but this time, it is completely unclear how long it will take to recover. .

"Japan Bridge Omasu" of Hiroshi Kuroda president earns in such large consecutive holidays and Obon is a lot of "lunch vendor, has a structure that covers the other time of the sales. Yet large deficit in reverse rather than fill-in-the-blank this time Since the ekiben is a "Hare Day" business, it can't be helped if people don't go out. It's a critical situation in which the business cannot really stand up if it doesn't converge as soon as possible. "