Collection of short message cards

Q:

Tosho Card Next is being sold at a discount at discount shops, so to help reduce the burden of book costs for students, we would like you to consider the following:

1. Negotiate with major discount ticket shops (such as Ticket Ranger, J Market, or Ticketty) to have them install a book card vending machine in the university bookstore and have the shop replenish the book cards as needed. Alternatively, you can take on consignment sales from the discount ticket shop and sell them to students at a discounted price at the bookstore counter

2. The University of Tokyo Co-op will purchase Next Book Cards in bulk from major gift certificate shops at bulk rates and sell them to students at the University Bookstore (and faculty and staff if there are any surplus). In this case, it would probably be necessary to obtain a secondhand goods dealer license under the Secondhand Goods Dealers Act, but since they are planning to obtain a license in order to start trading in computers, I think the hurdle is low

I would also like them to consider other products sold at discount ticket shops that would be useful to students, such as JAL and ANA shareholder discount tickets (for going home, etc.), stamps, and JR Orange Cards (some major discount ticket shops sell stamps at a discount of nearly 20%, while Orange Cards are discounted by nearly 10%). Students can
use discount ticket shops on their own, but because they are small individual customers and therefore cannot qualify for bulk rates, and because shipping costs can be a burden for small transactions, I would like the university co-op to handle these items in bulk.

Q:

You asked if we could sell them at a discount like the book cards sold at gift certificate shops. We apologize for the delay in responding, as we had to check the purchasing conditions of the gift certificate shop based on the information you provided. The bottom line is that
it would be difficult to sell the book cards at a discount even if we purchased them from a gift certificate shop.
The reason is that if we were to purchase the book cards from the gift certificate shop you provided information
about, the purchase price would be higher than the purchase price of a new book card, once the costs involved are taken into account.
co-ops also incur certain costs in running their business,
making it difficult for us to sell the cards at the purchase price.

Q:

I have a question. Following the recent announcement regarding the abolition of the Gakushoku Pass, there is information that the University of Tokyo may follow the trend of other university co-ops and abolish the 10% discount on books for members. Regarding this, I would like to ask whether a decision has been made at this point regarding the abolition of the discount, and whether abolition is being considered at the management level

In addition, as we believe there are many students, faculty and staff members who are interested in this matter, we would also like to request that an official announcement be made in either case

A:

Regarding your inquiry regarding whether the 10% discount on books offered to members will be abolished, the University of Tokyo Co-op has no plans to abolish the current discount on books offered to members

Q:

I know an international student who is a heavy cafeteria user and makes the effort to walk all the way from the Komaba Research Campus to the Komaba First Cafeteria just to eat. Since he can't read Japanese, I thought he would be happy if there were message cards that could be written in English. I
also think that creating an English version of the message cards would be very useful in understanding the difficulties non-Japanese speakers who use the cafeteria have and any misunderstandings they may have about how to use the cafeteria.

A:

Even now, some people are still writing letters in English at the Central Cafeteria and elsewhere, but as you have pointed out, we would like to consider some kind of response. While the information is written in store and on forms, Inquiries - University of Tokyo Consumer Co-op (utcoop.or.jp) , so we would appreciate your patience.

Q:

Please do not arbitrarily shorten the opening hours of the live kitchen corner.
Given that the opening hours are already short and the permanent menu remains the same, it is common sense to shorten the opening hours by more than an hour.

There's a sign saying that it gets busy at lunchtime, so they go out of their way to accommodate this by changing the opening time, but the result is fewer menu options, which is rude regardless of stock

A:

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. Regarding the date you inquired about, Friday, July 15th, we were unable to open the corner due to a malfunction of the equipment. Although it was a short notice, we posted information about the corner's closure on our Twitter account and in-store. After
maintenance, we have resumed business today from 11:00 to 14:00. While minimizing food waste, we set the planned number of meals based on the usage trends for each menu item and weekly usage trends. If there is more usage than expected, the items may sell out before opening hours, but we will increase the planned number of meals from next time onwards.