News Hachioji to introduce new service to curb food waste

[thomas]

In October, the City of Hachioji will introduce a service allowing consumers to purchase food close to the expiration date at low prices to reduce food waste. Registered business operators using the "Tabesuke Hachioji" service can list unsold food items on a website for customers to buy. Hachioji will be the first municipality in Tokyo to introduce such a system. Several cities like Himeji in Hyogo and Kofu in Yamanashi have introduced similar programmes.

Tabesuke is an online site for local governments operated by a Kyoto Prefecture-based company. To use the system, businesses such as restaurants, retailers and food manufacturing companies in Hachioji must first register on the site as "cooperating stores." They then can list food items with an approaching best-by or expiration date, or ones that do not fit specific standards for sale, at low prices. The city will bear the cost for business operators to register and put up their products for sale. Customers can register as users and make reservations to buy food via the site, pay at the store and pick up their purchases. The list of products is accompanied by information on the supplier, store address, cost of the items, the deadline for collecting them, and the amount of food waste reduction. Products that can be purchased in the users' vicinity or around the nearest train station will also be displayed.

Tokyo city to introduce service for stores to sell nearly expired food cheap to cut waste - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- The government of the suburban Tokyo city of Hachioji will introduce a service in October allowing consumers to purchase food items that are

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八王子市フードシェアリングサービス「タベスケHachioji」 - タベスケ | 自治体主導のフードシェアリングサービス

サービス概要 「食品ロス」は、まだ食べられるのに捨てられてしまう食品のことですが、日本の食品ロス発生量は令和4年度の推計で年間およそ472万トン、そのうち約半分が家庭からといわれています。 食料品販売店や飲食店などから発 […]

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[Grandpa Frank]

When stationed in Fukuoka (71-72) . one of our favorite snacks was peanut butter from WWII in military green cans marked 1940-1943 and it still tasted great.

 

[Petaris]

In October, the City of Hachioji will introduce a service allowing consumers to purchase food close to the expiration date at low prices to reduce food waste. Registered business operators using the "Tabesuke Hachioji" service can list unsold food items on a website for customers to buy. Hachioji will be the first municipality in Tokyo to introduce such a system. Several cities like Himeji in Hyogo and Kofu in Yamanashi have introduced similar programmes.

Tokyo city to introduce service for stores to sell nearly expired food cheap to cut waste - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- The government of the suburban Tokyo city of Hachioji will introduce a service in October allowing consumers to purchase food items that are

mainichi.jp

八王子市フードシェアリングサービス「タベスケHachioji」 - タベスケ | 自治体主導のフードシェアリングサービス

サービス概要 「食品ロス」は、まだ食べられるのに捨てられてしまう食品のことですが、日本の食品ロス発生量は令和4年度の推計で年間およそ472万トン、そのうち約半分が家庭からといわれています。 食料品販売店や飲食店などから発 […]

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A similar thing was done here in Chicago for restaurants. Its called "Too Good To Go" ( Too Good To Go ) and lets you order "leftover" food from restaurants.

By "leftover" they mean food that was prepped ahead of time for on-demand sale during the day. For example a place that does lunch pizzas might make 100 pepperoni pizzas for the lunch crowd but then only sells 83 of them, so the rest would be put as available on this app close to closing time in the hopes that someone might buy it cheap vs it just getting thrown out. The goal is that the customer gets the food for cheaper and the business doesn't take as much of a loss, or maybe no loss if they just cut the price to cost, instead of loosing all of the value of those ingredients and the time it took someone to make the product.

From what I have heard it is pretty hit-and-miss for the customers and does not seem to have turned into a popular thing.