Sustainability
With the aim of achieving a sustainable society in collaboration with business activities and local communities, we contribute to creating a sustainable society in the three aspects of society; (1) a de-carbonized society, (2) a recycle oriented society, and (3) a coexisting with nature society. We demonstrate environmental contribution to the society and customers through our business activities by creating Only One products and solutions, as well as our environmental activities that have achieved remarkable results and correspond to the needs of each area and society.
We provided products and services that contribute to a de-carbonized society and recycle oriented society as described below.
(1) Paper Reusing System
- The "Loops LP35/45/50" paper reusing hybrid MFP system that generates regular as well as erasable prints was released in July 2017 as the only product of its kind in the world.
(2) Smart Receipt (Electronic receipt)
- Electronic receipt system services for self-medication tax systems were commenced in April 2017.
- Demonstration experiment of social infrastructure for Smart Receipt was started in January 2018.
- The nation's first promotional partnership using Smart Receipt was implemented throughout Okinawa in September 2018.
- Smart Receipt was used for the official PARCO application, POCKET PARCO, and services began at Shibuya PARCO in November 2019.
- Electronic receipts helped reduce the spread of COVID-19 following the removal of the Smart Receipt monthly fee in May 2020.
- Cardless and paperless payments were promoted through the implementation of Smart Receipt and smartphone applications in July 2020.
- Collaborative sales promotions using electronic receipts began in the Tokachi area of Hokkaido in July 2020.
(3) Labor-Saving Solutions
- A trial to reduce work at the checkout and increase customer convenience through the use of smartphones was carried out in November 2019.
- A trial of learning automation for image recognition-based unmanned checkout systems was carried out in November 2019.
- PiPit Smartphone™️ smartphone-based self-checkouts launched in February 2020.
(4) System using RFID (Electronic tag)
- "Model for reducing environmental burden and improving productivity in apparel supply chains, taking advantage of electronic tags" received the Special Awards of the Green Logistics Partnership Conference in December 2017.
- Demonstration experiment of information sharing in supply chains was conducted in February 2018.
- Collaboration toward providing next-generation logistics services with IC (RFID) tags started in May 2018.
- The "Automatic Transport RFID Tunnel-type Gate" was developed in June 2018.
