How about fresh veggies and meat when you get gas? Sinopec offers new touch-free service amid coronavirus fears
- Convenience stores at gas stations in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Guangxi province delivering app-ordered groceries to car trunks
- ‘If this practise is welcomed by customers, we may in the future continue it,’ Sinopec spokesman says
Sinopec Corp. is offering customers terrified of catching the coronavirus a novel way to fuel up on gas and food – with no touching involved.
Customers place orders through an app. Workers at some of its Easy Joy Convenience Stores will then put fresh vegetables and meat directly into the customers’ boots as they get gas.
The experiment has just started in Beijing and Hangzhou as well as in Guangxi province. But some of its 27,000 convenience stores in more than 30,000 gas stations in China may try out the idea later.
“If this practise is welcomed by customers, we may in the future continue it,” said Sinopec spokesman Lv Dapeng. “If not, it’s only to meet demand in a special time.”
Subsidiaries will decide on the food delivery option, said Sinopec, the state-owned giant that accounted for about 55 per cent of China's oil product sales volume in 2018.
The vegetables come in a package that weighs around seven kilograms and includes about 10 kinds of vegetables and 10 eggs. That would provide enough food for a family of three people for about three days, according to Sinopec’s Exhibition Road station in Beijing.