A home delivery service of irregularly shaped fruits has become a huge success following its launch late last month by a company seeking to make up for lost business at its sightseeing orchard in northeastern Japan amid the coronavirus pandemic.Yamagata Sakuranbo Farm Co., which normally sells the substandard fruits only at its store, put the promotion online in a bid to avoid having to dump some 120 tons of products such as cherries and peaches as social-distancing measures kept visitors away.Its offer of seven deliveries over a period of six months, totaling 40 kilograms of fruit, for 28,…READ FULL ARTICLE
