Recently, food deserts, that fresh foods such as meat, fish, and vegetables are difficult to obtain, have been popping up in both rural and urban areas. In rural areas, convenience stores have played a role in making up for this shortage. Convenience stores listen to the needs of the local area and provide services that meet those needs. The needs of convenience store users are accumulated as data for each store. Data on people who eat bento boxes is accumulated.
Robots that automatically arrange ingredients in bento boxes are already available. Human hands have limited joints, and their range of operation is also limited. Robots can freely increase the number of joints according to their function and purpose. If the cost-effectiveness of achieving the purpose is reasonable, bento-making robots will be adopted smoothly. If this evolved robot were to pack bento ingredients, it would be able to work several times faster than now. In the central kitchen, robots will make individual bento boxes according to the order. Orders from each convenience store are delivered to the agency center, which will determine the style, number, and time of the bento order. The robot will automatically make the bento boxes that it has determined. It seems that the day is fast approaching when deliveries will be made smoothly to convenience stores, companies, and private homes using local distribution.
Areas with many people with long healthy life expectancies will require less medical and nursing care expenses. Keeping healthy elderly people healthy will be the core of local government and medical and nursing care policies from now on. Extending healthy life expectancy cannot be done in the medical field alone. The elements of food, clothing, and shelter that support life are required first. Convenience stores can play a major role in this element of food. In addition, convenience stores have accumulated a huge amount of information about the needs of the community. If this accumulated information is used effectively, it is possible to maintain and improve health. And if there is support from the government here, more effective measures are possible. It means that you can maintain your health depending on how you eat. If we can provide these meals in the form of bento boxes and ready-made meals that are tailored to the individual, we can contribute to improving the health of the local community. I hope that evolved convenience stores will play a central role in helping seniors become healthier.
