Business Model

We operate stores mainly with sales floor areas of 2,000 m² and 1,500 m². In addition, the front of our stores is made of glass, the ceiling is as high as 5 meters and the aisles are designed to be wide.

We strive to ensure that customers can shop in comfort by providing an abundant assortment of products making full use of the extensive store area and the bright and expansive space.

In addition, the spaciousness of our stores allows us not only to provide a product line-up that meets the needs of customers, but also to display an appropriate quantity of products, which results in a reduction in the frequency of restocking and mitigation of the workload through improved inventory management.

Our efforts are being placed on the creation of Neighborhood Shopping Centers (NSCs). We aim to create shopping complexes that are closely tied to everyday life by integrating them with other business types and sectors including drug stores, 100-yen shops, laundry shops, etc., which our customers visit with similar frequency. In addition, we enable one-stop and short-time shopping for customers by creating open-mall shopping centers with a free-of-charge flat parking lot, which supports easy entrance, exit and parking, established within the site.

At the time of store development, store locations are selected to be close to an intersection of traffic arteries for the community, with a focus on future scalability. In addition, we work to reduce initial investment costs through joint store openings, which leads to the improvement of return on assets (ROA).

Customer lifestyles are changing following changes in the social environment. We at Halows aim to understand and respond to the needs of customers associated with such changes. We are committed to “stably” providing “safe, reliable and low-priced” products to customers by integrally controlling “manufacture and development in production areas,” “collection and distribution” and “sales” with the Headquarters and in-house distribution centers at the core.

With “safety, reliability and health” as the keywords and as a food supermarket that contributes to the food culture of customers in local communities, Halows is working to enrich the line-up of food products that focus on safety, reliability and health while taking the diversified needs of customers into consideration.

Better products at lower prices―this is the theme that distribution businesses pursue endlessly. Halows provides “low-priced products with excellent value” on a daily basis by making efforts to lower product prices without compromising quality.

Halows is striving to support the everyday lives of customers, even if only a little, by pursuing the development of products that meet the HMR needs associated with changes in lifestyles, including an increase in the number of nuclear families, the declining birthrate and the greater number of working housewives.

Halows Selection has been developed around the basic concepts of “proper quality,” “low prices” and “safety, reliability and health.” As a matter of course, Halows aims to procure products from the best sources both inside and outside of Japan.