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Convenience store chain Lawson and SG Holdings, the parent company of Sagawa Express, announced Tuesday that they will form a joint venture called SG Lawson that will start operations in June.
Lawson President Genichi Tamatsuka said the new company will help elderly people and working people who are too busy to go shopping, Sankei reported Wednesday.
SG Lawson’s services will allow users not only to ship their baggage directly from the airport to their homes, but it will also offer them the opportunity to add products from Lawson’s website to their order as well. Furthermore, for customers who are not home at the time of delivery, their baggage and/or other items ordered online will be held for pickup at their nearest Lawson store location.
Up until now, Sagawa Express has not provided its customers with the option of picking up their luggage at Lawson stores. In addition, Lawson has never before offered a delivery service for its products.
SG Lawson expects to launch this program at 20 stores within the Toyko metropolitan area this fiscal year, with plans to expand to 1,000 stores by the end of fiscal 2017.
© Japan Today
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M3M3M3
This sounds really strange! So they will only deliver luggage from the airport along with an instant ramen from Lawson? Maybe his would have been a good idea if they hadn't already invented luggage with wheels and there wasn't already a Lawson on every street corner... am I missing something?