Cookpad Mart experiment with Lawson to reduce convenience store food waste

Cookpad, an online platform to share food recipes, begins experimenting, including selling Lawson’s unsaleable convenience store food on their Cookpad Mart.

Cookpad Mart is a platform installed at over 100 Lawson stores. It allows users to make orders for various goods, which are then delivered to Cookpad Mart ports, to be collected at the user’s timing. This is the first time Lawson’s unsold food will be available for order on Cookpad Mart.

Lawson considers unexpired food that has passed its “saleable date” to be non-standard and unsellable. As it turns out, about 90% of Lawson stores have already taken these non-standard food to sell at discounted prices. It means that Cookpad Mart will make it smoother to purchase these “expired” foods.

For the experiment, 10 of Lawson’s unsold desserts will be targets of the test. It will be carried out at Natural Lawson Shibaura Kaigandori in Tokyou until the end of next month (January 2023).