The Flashfood app aims to help by connecting shoppers with grocery stores that have food items nearing their best-before dates.
Flashfood is in 34 Massachusetts Stop & Shop stores, and nearly 70 across the Northeast. The company wants them in 300 locations by summer.
"We want to make sure that people have the ability to save and they have this resource that they know is available to them," said Maura O'Brien, Stop & Shop's manager of external communications."The statistic is if international food waste were a country, it'd be the third leading cause of greenhouse gas emission behind the U.S. and China," Domingues said.
Stop & Shop says it has diverted over 170,000 pounds of food from going to landfills, reducing carbon emissions. "All of the food that they purchased through Flashfood is diverted from a landfill," O'Brien said."Those were items that, had they not sold and they stayed on the shelf, and we needed to ultimately discard them, they would have ended up in a landfill, but now, customers are able to buy them at a discount and do the right thing for the environment."
Domingues says that more grocery stores have been reaching out to his company, and that his goal is to be nationwide by the end of 2023.
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