Daiei Gourmet City on the basement 1st floor of Shukugawa Green Town has been renovated.
This super stylish-looking spot is…
the place where Kirindo drugstore used to be. A new liquor section for Daiei Gourmet City has opened here.
The liquor section that used to be inside Daiei has moved over here, and it feels a lot bigger now.
The refrigerated section is packed with beer.
Oh! There’s even something called Premium Black from Yebisu Beer. Kind of makes me want one.
You can also buy beer by the case. These days they even throw in bonuses like plastic wrap or tissues.
The wine section has daily wines, organic wines, New World wines, European wines, sparkling wines, and more.
I’ve always kind of wanted to drink these mini bottles of whisky. Though I’m not great with whisky.
This area, where Kirindo used to sell things like shampoo, has become a “refrigerated section.” Wonder what kind of alcohol this is?
They had an amazing variety of chu-hi on sale.
The service counter has moved into this liquor section, and you can buy alcohol here too.
The spot where the service counter used to be has been expanded into a flower section.
Right next to the newly created flower section, there’s another space too. What could it be??
Believe it or not, a new eat-in space has appeared! Is this a first for Green Town?!
The original store area has also been renovated, and the bread section, which used to be a little hard to shop in, is now a bargain section.
This is the relocated bread section. They even had items for a flat 88 yen. This is where the wine and such used to be.
One thing I was happy to see was that the frozen food section has also been expanded.
There are way more noodle options now.
I feel like Tenkaippin probably wasn’t here before.
Also, they had a lot more of these one-plate meal-style items.
Things like miso-simmered mackerel with five-grain rice for 321 yen. That’s seriously cheap! Personally, that’s a huge help.
I’ve always thought frozen pasta is cheap and really satisfying as far as frozen foods go. There are lots of varieties too.
The side dish-style meals are well stocked too.
Topvalu products really are cheap after all.
Apparently this category is called cooked rice products. Frozen foods like fried rice and grilled rice balls. The category labels like “cooked rice” and “frozen foods” seem to be new too.
Also, existing sections like gummies seem to have quietly gained more items too.
If you count this section as one block, apparently the relocation of the liquor section added as many as 30 blocks this time.
So this 100 yen (108 yen including tax) uniform-price section has more items now too.
The spice-related selection has also increased, so there may be fewer moments of “Oh, they don’t have that.”
Starting with cup noodles, this renovation has apparently increased the overall number of products that customers had been asking for.
The biggest changes this time are probably the liquor and bread sections. Other areas have changed slightly too, so here’s the floor map.
Also, one point you might surprisingly not notice is…
They’ve apparently widened the aisles throughout each section.
They’re about one smartphone’s width wider. It was done to make it easier for strollers and wheelchairs to pass through.
Also, the area in front of the registers is wider now, and they had a red carpet laid out.
