Expanding Community Watch in the 10th Year of Home Delivery Business: Pal System Niigata Tokimeki Signs Childcare Support Agreement with Seiro Town

Pal System Niigata Tokimeki Consumers' Cooperative (Headquarters: Nishi-ku, Niigata City; Representative Director: Etsuko Seno) held a signing ceremony for a "Collaboration Agreement for the Promotion of Childcare Support" with Seiro Town (Mayor: Michio Nishiwaki) on Thursday, April 30th. This marks the third agreement with a local government, following those with Shibata City and Tsubame City. As a community watch provider in the areas where it operates its home delivery business, the cooperative aims to promote the creation of an environment where everyone can raise children with peace of mind and all children can grow up healthy.

Also creating places for interaction as a bearer of local welfare

The agreement is concluded to effectively promote Seiro Town's childcare support policies by utilizing the community-based network of cooperative home delivery and the daily contact with child-rearing households. As a cooperative that promotes childcare support and community welfare activities together with its users, it will deepen its collaboration with the administration in Seiro Town, which has a high household usage rate within the prefecture.

At the signing ceremony, Mayor Nishiwaki and Representative Director Seno each signed two copies of the agreement. Representative Director Seno stated, "In addition to our home delivery business that delivers safe food to homes, as a cooperative that contributes to creating communities where people can continue to live with peace of mind, we will also play a role in childcare support. In the future, we will collaborate with a view to creating places for community residents to interact," expressing her determination to meet the expectations of Seiro Town.

▲ Mayor Nishiwaki (left) and Representative Director Seno (right) exchanging the agreement document

Leveraging the role of "Co-op Home Delivery" in watching over the community

Based on the agreement, Seiro Town will distribute information cards for the "Omedeto-bako" (Congratulations Box), a gift set of childcare products, as a birth celebration to recipients of infant health check-ups. Those who wish to receive it can apply via a QR code on the card to receive a set of Pal System original products and other items. The gifts include baby soap, baby wipes, a recipe book useful for making baby food, and salt-free tuna cans.

The "Omedeto-bako" will be delivered directly to the applicant's home by Pal System on behalf of the town. As a cooperative celebrating its 10th year of home delivery service in the prefecture, it will provide products and delivery while watching over child-rearing households in the community.

"Omedeto-bako" product details

Locally sourced wheat pancake mix 200g x 2, Hohoemi Raku-Raku Milk 1 bottle, YUMYUM Baby Soap 250ml, yumyum Baby Wipes 80 sheets, "Carrot-san" Carrot & Fruit Juice 100ml x 3, Tuna Flake Can Salt-free & Non-oil 70g x 1, "Starting Baby Food" BOOK.

▲ Products included in the "Omedeto-bako"

Supporting the community with the "Power of Cooperation"

Pal System visits the same area in Seiro Town once a week for deliveries. Utilizing its close-knit infrastructure, it delivers information on original products useful for childcare, childcare-related interaction events held with users, and its independently operated childcare website "Kosodate 123." It supports child-rearing households with the power of cooperation through diverse connections.

Pal System Niigata Tokimeki will continue to be a consumers' cooperative that actively disseminates childcare information, collaborating with administration and various people, aiming to create communities where everyone can raise children with peace of mind.

Pal System Niigata Tokimeki Consumers' Cooperative

Location: 303-8 Yamada, Nishi-ku, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture; Representative Director: Etsuko Seno Investment Capital: 240 million JPY; Number of Members: 18,000; Total Business Revenue: 2.33 billion JPY (as of end of March 2025) Website: https://www.niigata-tokimeki.jp/

Pal System Consumers' Cooperative Federation Location: Rakuasu Higashi Shinjuku, 2-2-6 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Haruyuki Shibusa 13 member cooperatives, total business revenue of unified business system users: 260.42 billion JPY / Total members: 1.762 million (as of end of March 2025) Member Cooperatives: Pal System Tokyo, Pal System Kanagawa, Pal System Chiba, Pal System Saitama, Pal System Ibaraki Tochigi, Pal System Yamanashi Nagano, Pal System Gunma, Pal System Fukushima, Pal System Shizuoka, Pal System Niigata Tokimeki, Pal System Kyosai Ren, Saitama Workers' Cooperative, Ai Co-op Miyagi Keywords: