App helps cut food waste by enabling purchases of near-expiring items at discount
After a successful pilot earlier this year, The Giant Company this month rolled out the Flashfood mobile app to another 33 stores.
From Toronto-based Flashfood, the app allows Giant customers to buy fresh food — including produce, meat, deli and bakery products — approaching its “best before” date at significantly reduced prices, in turn cutting back on store-generated food waste.
The Ahold Delhaize USA supermarket chain said Thursday that Flashfood is now available at a Martin’s store in Rising Sun, Md., and 32 Giant/Martin’s stores in Pennsylvania, including Columbia, Dover, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Exton (two locations), Frazer, Gilbertsville, Kennett Square (two locations), Lancaster (Willow Valley Square), Leola, Manchester, Mt. Joy, Phoenixville, Pottstown, Quarryville (two locations), Red Lion, Royersford (two locations), Shrewsbury, Stowe, Thorndale, West Chester (four locations), West Grove and York (three locations).