Comments on: One in five Japanese buy groceries on the internet http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/23/one-in-five-japanese-buy-groceries-on-the-internet/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Steven http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/23/one-in-five-japanese-buy-groceries-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-249819 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:56:44 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4747#comment-249819 I know where I live “Yoshi-kei” is quite common. My parents in law order it (offline). You kind of choose what you want from an A menu, a B menu, C menu, etc. Each menu has a theme such as “washoku”, “western”, or “quick meals” and a slightly different price. They send you a package every day that includes just the amount of ingredients you need to cook whatever is on the menu for that day (including pre-made sauces and stuff like that).

I’m surprised that people are so willing to do so. I know it’s convenient, but there are a couple of issues I have with it. For starters, I think it is a little expensive (especially considering you just get ingredients for dinner). I also think that while it seems to be economic to receive just what you need to make your meal, the delivery and packaging (like plastic bags for a couple of leaves of lettuce) seems to negate that. One more thing- I don’t think the origin of the ingredients is stated. I don’t know if the ingredients are all Japanese. Even if they are, there are some places I wouldn’t want to be eating beef/meat products or vegetables from at this point in time. I don’t know about other online options– if they don’t list the origins of their products, that may account for the huge “used to do so” chunk of the results.

At any rate, this is an interesting survey. I didn’t realize that so many people ordered online!

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