Grocery bus caters to isolated German villageAFP, LOHNE, GermanyIn the western German village of Lohne, where the only grocery store closed its doors earlier this year, residents do their food shopping on board a red-and-green supermarket bus that rolls into the main square once a week. Customers shop in an REWE grocery bus delivering daily needs in Lohne, Germany, on July 6. From Monday to Saturday, the supermarket bus covers a 600km route, stopping at 23 villages. The prices on board “are the same” as in the REWE supermarkets, said Joern Berszinski, who manages the supermarket bus. The bus project has not gone unnoticed in Germany, where nearly 2,000 supermarkets of fewer than 400m2 have closed over the past decade, EHI retail research group said.
