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Billions of pounds of food end up in landfills each year in North America but one company is helping decrease that number while helping shoppers save money.

Stop & Shop said it is the first retailer in Massachusetts to offer the program.

By Nina Felicidario Despite setbacks from the pandemic, a food waste reduction company has diverted over 50 million pounds of food from landfills. Flashfood is a mobile marketplace that connects surplus food in grocery stores with local shoppers to help sell food that will get disposed of in landfill if it isn’t sold within a day or two. Users open the app to order and buy groceries at a discounted rate then pick them up from participating stores. The company that launched in Canada had successful rollouts this year in over a thousand stores. They are implemented in Meijer stores in Michiga...

Grand Rapids Business Journal Courtesy SpartanNash Meijer plans to roll out the Flashfood program to all of its retail stores this year. After COVID-19 caused delays in the retailer’s plans to bring Flashfood to all its stores across the Midwest in 2020, Meijer announced it is now on track to complete the implementation of the food waste reduction program this year. While also cutting down on in-store food waste, the program allows customers to purchase food nearing its sell-by date — like meat, produce, seafood, deli and bakery products — at up to 50% off on the Flashfood app and then ...