Who doesn’t like to make a deal or close a sale when buying?There is now an app for this in Giant supermarkets.
Flashfood alerts consumers to new foods approaching the end of their shelf life. Customers can purchase the parts directly from the app using a credit or debit card and then at their local Giant supermarket to pick them up from a particular known shelf. and fridge.
“We received a lot of positive feedback. It’s a wonderful way to feed your circle of family members more affordably,” said Bill Patton, director of store optimization at Giant. elimination system.
“People are excited about this,” said Andy Edwards, manager of the Giant store in Quakertown.
Giant donates food to the local pantry, as well as major charitable food distributors, such as Philabundance.
Patton learned about the Flashfood app used through Loblaws, a supermarket chain in Canada, and investigated its appearance at the 187 outlets in the Mid-Atlantic region of the five states Giant serves. So far, the application is installed in 170 points of sale. all of them in Bucks County, and will be at all Giant outlets through the end of the month.
Giant also uses robots called “Marty” at its outlets to alert aisle spill control and prevent accidents.
“We’re looking at the market,” Patton said to locate cutting-edge tactics to make grocery shopping safer and more successful for both consumers and the supermarket chain itself.
The Flashfood app alerts shoppers to new food products in an express store, adding meats, dairy, baked goods and specialty products like sandwiches, which are reaching their expiration date and have been discounted. for $5 and would possibly come with a variety of green salads and other lawn items.
Edwards said that at his store, peak shoppers using the app arrive early in the morning to get maximum productive options for discounted parts for the day. Customers have told him they like the app because they are there to serve more and more variety. of high quality meats and products to their families.
While many supermarket chains set up tables for discounted parts or mark packaging to alert consumers that a specific product is on sale, Patton said he doesn’t know of any other local competition in the supermarket industry that uses the app.
Flashfood was founded in Toronto and was created through Josh Domingues, an investment consultant, after hearing his sister, a catering chef, say that the position where she worked deserved to be worth $4,000 worth of food. Country, would be the third leading cause of greenhouse gases (GHG) behind the United States and China. “
In 2020, the app was recently used through Giant and a few other food supermarket chains, capable of diverting 11. 3 million pounds of food from landfills where discarded food creates methane by breaking down, says the Flashfood website.
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