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  • Central Food Hall features robots and stores in Thai stores

    Central Food Hall features robots and stores in Thai stores

    The Central Food Hall supermarket chain has turned to robots to disinfect stores as part of its fight against the coronavirus. The robots use UV-C to sterilize stores.

    The UV-C light reaches 360 degrees and destroys more than 99.99% of all pathogens nearly instantaneously. The robot currently is only disinfecting the Central Food Hall location in the central Chidlom area of Bangkok while the store is closed. The chain indicated it would be employing the robots at other Central Food Hall and Tops Market locations soon.

    The technology has been used for more than three years at Thai factories, companies, hotels, schools and hospitals. Testing indicates the light doesn’t have any harmful side effects on products or food.

    UV-C light has been approved by the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Soil Association (Organic Lobby) as an effective method of disinfection.

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  • Central Food launches new format in Thailand

    Central Food launches new format in Thailand

    The parent company of Tops Supermarket, Central Food Retail (CFR), will invest Thb1bn (US$29.37m) in a new format Tops Plaza, and 176 new Superkoom supermarkets.

    The leading Thai retailer told that the new format will be community shipping mall, with the first to open in Pichit this year, and another in Payao next year. CFR also plans to open 178 Superkoom supermarkets this year, bringing its total operations of the discount supermarket to 200.

    Phattaraporn Phenpraphat, CFR executive vice-president for marketing and public relations, told that the company had strong sales growth in the first quarter of the year, both from existing stores and from new Superkoom, Tops Daily and Tops Market store openings.

    “Our sales growth of 3.02 per cent in the first quarter exceeded the industry growth rate,” she said.

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