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Japan warms to cool delivery lockers as online food sales surge

Companies testing market for refrigerated parcel boxes at condos and homes

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The Japanese market for delivery lockers is expected to hit 25 billion yen in 2025, a fourfold increase from 2016.

YOHEI KAWAI and SHIHO MIYAJIMA, Nikkei staff writers
January 14, 2019 20:27 JST

TOKYO/OSAKA -- Demand for refrigerated delivery lockers is heating up in Japan as online sales of fresh food and other perishables increase.

Japanese electronics maker Panasonic is in talks with a number of condominium developers to install refrigerated delivery lockers, or cool lockers, at Tokyo condos scheduled to go on the market in 2019.

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