Document 72 Hours

Document 72 Hours - Season 10 Episode 1 Salvaging Bargains at a Tokyo Grocery Store

2025-07-15 25 minutes.
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Season - Episode

5 Season 5 Jan 17, 2017
4 Season 4 Jan 12, 2016
2 Season 2 Apr 15, 2014
1 Season 1 Aug 22, 2013

Overview

A store in a Tokyo suburb selling short-dated, surplus or imperfect yet edible food items cheaply is a magnet for thrifty shoppers. They can find vegetables costing just 27 US cents, a bottle of beer for 30 cents, and a pack of meat costing less than 1 dollar. The customers included a young woman trying to stretch the food budget for her family of 9; a woman and daughter who drive for an hour to buy meat; and a man thrilled by finding an unexpected bargain. Why do people come to this store that also reflects the huge volume of food discarded in Japan? For 3 days, we talked to customers hunting a bargain while filling their shopping baskets.

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