As the market for online supermarkets expands due to the consumption of corona stagnation, a new online supermarket specializing in home delivery that delivers within 10 minutes of ordering has entered the market.



Other supermarkets are also accelerating investment in the Internet business, and competition in this area is intensifying.

A venture company in Tokyo opened a new store in Meguro-ku, Tokyo this week.



There are about 1000 kinds of groceries such as vegetables and seasonings and daily necessities in the store, but you can not shop at the store.



When a customer places an order from a dedicated app, the store staff takes out the product and delivers it by bicycle, and by narrowing the delivery area within a radius of 1 km, it can be delivered within 10 minutes of ordering.



The shipping fee is 300 yen each time.



Stores specializing in home delivery are also called "dark stores" in Europe and the United States, and the company plans to open 25 stores by the end of the year.



Naoya Umeshita said, "I want to meet the needs of people who want to buy what they want right now."



According to the research company "Fuji Keizai", the domestic online supermarket market size was 299 billion yen last year, an increase of more than 20% from the previous year, against the background of "consumption of nesting" of the corona virus.



Under these circumstances, competition is intensifying among supermarket companies as Seiyu is accelerating investment by establishing new distribution and delivery bases dedicated to online supermarkets in Kanagawa Prefecture and Life in Tokyo.