PSA HelloFresh is Seemingly Pulling Out of Japan

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1. Was patiently waiting for them to deliver to my area…. guess that will not happen now, sigh.

2. Goodbye, Fresh.

3. I never understood why people use this, instead of just buying the ingredients in the supermarket. You have to cook yourself anyway, so you’re just saving the delivery. But you still have to go to the supermarket to buy other stuff anyway.

4. And another one bites the dust. Hard to beat the locals.

5. > Disgruntled employees complained that the Japanese team was only notified on 20 December that they would lose their jobs on 31 December, without respecting the legal 30-day notice period. In the letter, the CEO also stressed that there was no intention to notify the press in advance. The listed company clearly hoped to keep the termination quiet for as long as possible.

   How do you expect any kind of success expanding to a country if you can’t even do enough research to know basic labor laws like this? No wonder they failed lol

6. I imagine that some of it has to do with JA. Unlike in other countries where there is more or less a free market regarding produce, it seems like almost everything here gets directed through JA, which fixes the prices and probably removes a lot of the chances for making a profit for a business like HelloFresh.

7. Has anyone tried it here? How was it?

8. Coop’s meal kits are pretty good bang for the buck, and they rotate the offerings regularly. But they don’t often offer a large variety all at the same time.