TOKYO -- Supermarket chain Daiei, an affiliate of Japanese retailer Aeon, will open an unmanned store in Tokyo this summer in collaboration with Chinese startup Cloudpick, Nikkei has learned.
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Daiei is opening its first unmanned store in Tokyo's Koto area. The bottom half of the photo shows a Cloudpick store in Shanghai. (Source photo by Tomoki Mera)
TOKYO -- Supermarket chain Daiei, an affiliate of Japanese retailer Aeon, will open an unmanned store in Tokyo this summer in collaboration with Chinese startup Cloudpick, Nikkei has learned.