Confectionery maker Sales will drop sharply due to the impact of the new Corona 13:19 on May 2
With the spread of the new coronavirus, confectionery makers who sell souvenirs for souvenirs at airport stores nationwide are seriously affected.
Due to the spread of new coronavirus infections, many airports nationwide have closed stores selling souvenirs such as confectionery and bento, which has caused a serious drop in sales among confectionery makers around the world. There are also places.
Among them, "Sanpachi", a confectionery maker in Sapporo, is a well-established 115-year-old company that sells Western confectionery and Japanese confectionery for souvenirs at shops in New Chitose Airport.
It is said that the company's new coronavirus has caused sales to drop sharply from last month and sales at the airport have dropped to almost zero, and sales at all stores, including directly managed stores, have fallen to around 20%.
In the average year, the long holidays are "at the time of scraping", but this means that the number of airport users has decreased significantly and sales have dropped sharply.
In addition, the Hokkaido Bussan Exhibition, which is held in department stores all over the country every spring, has been canceled one after another, and it is being struck.
Mr. Hisataka Kobayashi, president of Sanha, said, "Usually, we carry in dozens and hundreds of boxes at the airport every year, but today there are no orders from the airport. It is a very difficult situation." .
On the other hand, in order to support such local confectionery makers, a company that operates stores such as souvenirs at the airport began an initiative to sell assorted confectioneries near the expiration date at a cheap price on an internet mail order site last month. .
Kazuo Takeuchi, Hokkaido Area Branch Manager of JALUX Airport, which sells assorted products, said, “We are having a hard time as a manufacturer because we have nowhere to go for the products we have secured. I am talking.