SUSTAINABILITY
Energy Saving
More Efficient Distribution
Lawson seeks to reduce the environmental burden by implementing an efficient nationwide distribution network and introducing eco-friendly vehicles and facilities.
Optimizing Delivery Frequency
We use trucks equipped with two temperature zones partitioned to separate chilled products* from unchilled products, making it possible to more efficiently transport both in one vehicle. We have also adjusted the delivery frequency for daily necessities, processed foods, and frozen foods. These initiatives have facilitated a reduction in daily average deliveries per store (excluding newspapers, books, magazines and cigarettes) to 7.0, from 16 in 1989.
*Chilled products: Rice dishes, dairy products, desserts and other items that must be kept refrigerated.
- Average Daily Deliveries Per Store

Eco-Tires and Traffic Control System
We have equipped our delivery trucks with eco-tires to improve their fuel economy. Trucks delivering chilled products or daily necessities are connected to a traffic control system that helps promote efficient driving and prevent unnecessary idling to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and to save fuel.
- Eco-Tires
- Thanks to innovations in tire shape and rubber composition, eco-tires help reduce energy loss (rolling resistance) during use and thus reduce fuel consumption. The use of eco-tires is estimated to improve per-vehicle fuel efficiency by about 4%.
- Traffic Control System
- This system provides real-time information about the temperature of goods during transportation as well as about arrivals and deliveries, enabling more robust quality control. It also provides data on the ways trucks are being driven, including rapid acceleration and braking as well as speeding. We use this information to promote more efficient driving and to help prevent unnecessary idling.
Delivery truck

Eco-tire
Eco-Friendly Driving
Awarding ceremony of recognition for eco-friendly drivers
We train drivers to always avoid unnecessary idling and noise. Seeking to raise driver awareness, we also have a awarding system of recognition to contractors that promote eco-friendly driving.
- Reducing Noise
- The noise generated by delivery vehicles and carts can be a nuisance to local communities.
We continuously work to reduce noise during deliveries.
- Quiet Pushcarts
- The casters on these pushcarts have been upgraded from metal to 100% resin. All vehicles that deliver chilled or frozen products are equipped with quiet pushcarts.
- Noiseless Cargo Carriages
- The metal bars of cargo carriages used for transporting non-chilled products have been replaced with double-walled bars to reduce resonance.
- Noiseless Lashing Belts
- The release buckles on cargo lashing belts inside delivery trucks have been improved to reduce noise. These buckles have been installed in all trucks that deliver non-chilled products.
- Improved Power Liftgates
- Power liftgates are used to load and unload carts from trucks. To reduce the noise generated when a liftgate contacts the ground, we have reduced the speed at which liftgates move and applied rubber dampers to the ground-facing surface.