Amid growing needs for home delivery due to the effects of the new coronavirus, efforts to deliver the drugs for sale at convenience stores in Takamatsu City using a delivery agency service began on the 1st.
Lawson, a major convenience store, uses the delivery agency service "Uber Eats" to deliver food and daily necessities, but the store in Matsushima-cho, Takamatsu City also started delivering medicines from the 1st.
There are 52 types of medicines, including cold medicines that do not require prescriptions and antipyretic analgesics, and store owners and clerk who are qualified to sell medicines select the products according to the order and hand them to the delivery staff.
This service depends on the work situation of the delivery staff, but it can be used within a radius of about 3 km from the store, so according to Lawson, it is the first service in Chugoku and Shikoku to deliver medicines with "Uber Eats". is.
Sadaji Fujino, owner of Lawson Matsushimacho 2-chome, which started a drug delivery service, said, "Sales of antipyretic analgesics that can be used even when a side reaction occurs due to vaccination have doubled. I was asked to deliver it to my home, so I think this service will be appreciated. "