Precut and packaged salads are a hit in the U.S. In Japan, Dole was among the first to test-market them.

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Bagged produce is often precut, releasing water and nutrients that feed bacteria.

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That means cold soups, creative salads, and tea sandwiches precut into quarters.

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Among them: precut venetian blinds, tool rentals, Christmas trees and pretzels.

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Over the next few years it plans to open 15 processing centers so it can deliver precut salads and other locally sourced items to any store in Japan within three hours.

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The Other Building Materials and Equipment Business segment offers wooden interior furnishing materials, interior fabrics, external tiles for houses and buildings, internal decorative tiles, siding, stone materials, roofing materials, precut products, and solar power generation systems.

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" I buy precut fruit and vegetables on my way home from work, even though they are a ridiculous waste of money, because when I actually do cook, it means even more time apart: I'm away in the kitchen and the kids are in the living room on Club Penguin or watching "America's Next Top Model.

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