News Hachioji to introduce new service to curb food waste

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.

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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

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