Grocery store pickup can be helpful, but Cookpad Mart, an online grocery retailer in Japan, offers an even more accomodating service. The company already provides delivery to lockers inside convenience stores. Now, Sora News 24 informs us, it's offering grocery pickup inside train stations.
This service is, so far, available at four stations of the East Japan Railway company. Customers can make an online cart and choose a station. Their groceries will be ready for them when they arrive at the pickup point in the selected station.
Think of what a great time saver this could be! People getting off of work could pick up food on the way home with only a brief detour inside a train station. I wonder if this could work in some American cities that have extensive rail networks.
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