With the growing aging of Japanese society, how the elderly to buy daily necessities have become a major problem. According to "Japanese Economic News" reported on the 16th, Tottori Prefecture Chizu-cho, Japan launched "mobile supermarket" has become to solve the problem of the elderly to go out shopping a "model project." To help the elderly legs inconvenience, Chizu-cho government and local supermarkets cooperation, the minivan converted into a "truck." Filled with vegetables, fruits, various types of food and household items minivan shuttle in the streets, the elderly stay in their house convenience shop.

It reported that other regions of Japan have also begun to introduce this "mobile supermarket", not only because of its convenient shopping for the elderly, but also to assist observation of life and physical health of elderly people living alone and so on. In Japan, many elderly people living alone in their homes fall was discovered after many days, all over Japan are seeking ways to solve this problem. The "mobile supermarket" of the way the driver can observe the status of the elderly in the home delivery two to three times a week, asking what difficulties the elderly, help the government to grasp the situation of the elderly.