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Flashfood Hauls in January 2024

Flashfood Hauls in January 2024. #newlogo #iswalmartjoiningyet #thebigsandwich #eggs!

Flashfood’s newest logo in January 2024 New year, new look for Flashfood! Flashfood unveiled their newest logo for their discounted food service (buying items about to pass its “best before date” at savings of 50% off).  I liked their previous logo with the lightning symbol and groceries.  This one doesn’t look so unique (it blends into the other icons on my phone).  Some people say it looks like…

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Price Rite kicks off pilot of Flashfood food waste reduction app

Price Rite kicks off pilot of Flashfood food waste reduction app

Good News Notes: “Wakefern Food Corp.’s Price Rite Marketplace has begun testing the Flashfood food waste reduction app in western New York. The free app from Toronto-based Flashfood gives shoppers access to exclusive deals on products — including meat, produce, seafood, dairy, deli and bakery — that are nearing their best-by date. In turn, the significantly reduced prices drive purchases of food…

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Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

Toronto-based Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date, has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by S2G Ventures. The app allows users to browse through available deals at participating stores near them. Customers can also purchase items directly in the app and then pick up their order from the Flashfood zone in their…

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Last weekend, Gillian Pulfer picked up roasted sweet potato soup, flank steak, and chicken salad for $10 at a Toronto Pusateri's Fine Foods. Pulfer said, "It's a more premium, luxury grocery store...so most people don't necessarily have the budget to do their shopping there, but you're saving money and you're getting good food."

She let her Instagram followers know where she got her haul: Too Good to Go. The app connects customers with restaurants and grocers eager to keep ageing food that's still edible out of the trash for a small fee.

Some users of apps like Too Good To Go, Flashfood, Feedback and Olio say they have paid anywhere from $3 to $10 for prepared lunches or dinners, a week's worth of vegetables and fruit, several loaves of bread, pastry boxes and even, entire pizzas or cakes.

Eric Tribe, Flashfood's chief marketplace officer, said the savings often go a long way. "A father wrote in and thanked us over the holidays because he had lost his job due to COVID-19 and he used the money saved by using Flashfood to buy stocking stuffers for his kids," said Tribe.

Toronto entrepreneur Josh Domingues started the app, which is used by supermarket conglomerate Loblaw Corp., in 2016. After a catered event, his sister threw out $4000 worth of food. Produce, meat, fish, bread, dairy and pantry staples are marked down by at least 50 percent as they approach their sell-by dates. Some items can be frozen or cooked for weeks. Others have just a few days left.

We retrieved orders from supermarkets, which usually mark items nearing their expiration dates down or donate them to charities, food banks and farms for animal feed. Yet those methods still leave grocers responsible for a quarter of the country's food waste, so Flashfood went after just that portion, said Tribe. (He noted that the app doesn't divert food from charities.)

So far, Flashfood has kept more than 13.5 million kilograms of food out of landfills and saved users around $90 million. Moreover, Second Harvest, a charity that resells unsold items to needy people, estimates that about 60 percent of Canadian food is wasted every year or 35.5 million tonnes. Of the lost food, about 32 percent or 11.2 million tonnes are edible and could be redirected to people who need it.

Maria Corradini, the Arrell Chair in Food Quality at the University of Guelph, said that people claim food waste can be solved by downloading an app. "Although that may not be true, they can certainly do their part to reduce this burden."

She believes using artificial intelligence and better inventory planning will further address food waste. A Too Good To Go Canada manager agrees that inventory management is crucial, but says that matching supply and demand is complex, and no restaurant wants to produce less, only to discover that it cannot serve late customers.

In addition to deals with restaurants, bakeries, and butchers, Too Good To Go is also partnering with supermarkets and convenience stores. Founded in Copenhagen in 2016 and expanded to Canada last July, the app lets users order items ahead of time and collect them at designated times.

They are not sure what they pick up because businesses sell "surprise bags," and while some give hints about what is inside, others don't. As an example, Eataly advertises some $8 bags as containing charcuterie ingredients, but McEwan Foods, chef Mark McEwan's supermarket, shares no information about its $8 bags.

Daan Go Cake Lab's bags often feature cake slices or the famous character macarons. There are some that weren't sold that day, and there are others with cracks or blemishes the posh clientele of the bakery wouldn't tolerate.

CEO James Canedo said it was a no-brainer to sign up for Too Good To Go. He said, "As chefs, you never want food to go to waste. It is almost sacred to us. Many people out there do not have the same privileges as we do, so if food is wasted, we are trying to prevent that."

Corradini lauds these sentiments but says there are risks associated with the promotion of waste reduction. There are apps that only work with reputable vendors who have employees who are trained in handling food, while others like Olio let anyone make food at home or sell what they don't finish.

Corradini said she would never buy something that had been opened because she does not know what was inside. Even food from grocery stores and restaurants should be carefully examined closely before being eaten, she said. Everything customers purchase that will go bad soon should be cooked, frozen, prepared or consumed very quickly.

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My First Month Using the Flashfood app to Save Food and Money

My first month of using the Flashfood app to save food and money. #nofrills #loblaws #massivesavings #savemoney #rescuefoodfrombeingthrownout

A Flashfood fridge inside of the customer service area at Loblaws Richmond Hill I started using the Flashfood app in June 2023.  Flashfood is a mobile app where you get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.  You save groceries from supermarkets for half of the price!  Continue reading Untitled

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Flashfood Hauls July 2024

My Flashfood Hauls in July 2024. #groceryshoppings #pickupandgo #savings

Loving my Flashfood deals Use the free Flashfood app to get 50% off groceries that are nearing their “best before” dates at select participating grocery stores across Canada and the United States. Use my referral code  KARE4PEFC  to get $5 in rewards in the Flashfood app when your first purchase is over $10.  Continue reading Flashfood Hauls July 2024

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Flashfood Hauls in August 2023

Flashfood Hauls in August 2023. #varieditems #notjustmilk

One of the best hauls so far! Look at all this variety! *_* Use the Flashfood app to save money on groceries that are about to go bad! You can use my referral code “KARE4PEFC”.  If your first purchase is over $15, then we’ll both get $3 in rewards! Here are the grocery items we picked up from Flashfood in August 2023:  Continue reading Flashfood Hauls in August 2023

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What I got from Flashfood in February 2024

What I got from Flashfood in February 2024. #discountedgroceries #lotsofpickupsinfebruary #newfinds

My referral code for Flashfood. Their current deal is so great. Buy $10 worth and get $5 back! Flashfood is a free app that you can use in Greater Toronto Area supermarkets to get a 50% discount off on groceries that are nearing their “best before” dates.   I have been using this app since June of last year and have discovered so many great items that we wouldn’t normally buy.  We’ve saved a lot…