Responding to the needs of retailers having difficulty reaching potential customers interested in sampling products, Luke 19 created Sample Hyakkaten (http://www.3ple.jp/).

In Japan, product samples are often handed out near large terminal stations or in crowded streets. Sample Hyakkaten takes this process online and makes it convenient for companies to deliver product samples and collect survey results from potential customers.

The site currently has one hundred thousand registered members and its most popular sections include sampling cosmetic and health products. By responding to surveys and sending comments on product samples, users collect points in order to receive more samples. Currently, its users are mostly women but there is great potential for products targeting male, elderly, and teenage audiences. The site is considering adding a function where companies can sell products that are popular among registered members.

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After learning about the laundry delivery service business in the United States, president Mika Yamazaki started her own similar service, Wash & Fold on March 2005. The service is based on a pricing system where anything you can fit within a Wash & Fold bag will cost 2400 yen to wash. The items placed into the bag need to be washable with a normal washing machine and are simply picked up, washed and folded and delivered back to the customer. The service’s reasonable pricing and convenience have attracted around a thousand members mainly in the Tokyo area and are receiving approximately 20 bags a day.

It is difficult to say in such beginning stages whether or not the service will be able to compete once the prices of dryers decline, but the service definitely has potential in a country where more people are willing to invest their money for time away from such mundane household chores.