Flowers drive-through before Mother's Day 18:14 on May 3, Kawasaki

In front of Mother's Day on the 10th of this month, at the market in Kawasaki City, you can receive flowers purchased online in advance through a drive-through method while you are in a car, and you can get flowers while avoiding contact with people. It is gaining popularity when possible.

With the spread of new coronavirus infections causing a series of event suspensions and a dramatic drop in flower consumption, a flower shop management company in Tokyo began selling from a dedicated website last month to reduce the amount of flowers discarded. It was

The buyers pass flowers to the “Kawasaki City Local Wholesale Market Southern Market” in Sachi-ku, Kawasaki City, and they pass flowers through to reduce contact, so the delivery is a drive-through method.

There are flowers that can usually be purchased for half the price, and customers visited by car one after another for three days, and they had flowers loaded in the trunk while in the car.

A man in his 40s said, "I'm close to Mother's Day, so I'll deliver it to my wife's parents' house. I can avoid the crowds and I can buy it cheaper than usual, so it will be helpful."

Mr. Yoshiaki Matsumura, the president of the company that started the initiative (51), said, “We started to help growers who cannot ship flowers. I would like them to decorate the house with a feeling of cherry blossom viewing.” It was

The dedicated site for purchasing is https: // jfc / thebase / in, which you can receive until the 10th of this month.