Starting this fall, Sugi Pharmacy Co., headquartered in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, will offer seniors a new type of job contract in order to help its older employees keep fitter for longer as well as address the company's manpower shortage.
By offering flexible working conditions as stock clerks, the company hopes to help the elderly expand their social circles and inspire a new sense of purpose.
Sugi Pharmacy has launched the campaign as a small-scale pilot in Nishio and Hekinan, but plans to expand the program to 100 stores in an area centering around Aichi Prefecture by February 2018, the end of its current business year.