Flashfood and Loblaw divert more than 4.6M lbs of food from landfills in 2019

Flashfood app rolls out to more stores in 2020

TORONTO, May 26, 2020 /CNW/ - Today, Flashfood announced that its successful partnership with Loblaw Companies Ltd (Loblaw) will be extended to more stores this year. In 2019, the Canada-wide program helped divert 4.6 million pounds of potential food waste from landfills, in the process feeding more than 110,000 families and allowing shoppers to collectively save more than $10M on groceries.

Originally launched in 138 Maxi and Provigo stores throughout Quebec, the program was rolled out nationwide in more than 400 Loblaw stores in the last half of 2019, including Loblaw, Real Canadian Superstore, Atlantic Superstore, Dominion, and Zehrs. With the Flashfood app, shoppers can purchase food items nearing their best before date at a reduced price of up to 50 percent off at select Loblaw grocery stores. To date, the Flashfood app has surpassed 1,000,000 downloads in Canada.

"The results that we've seen in only our first year of scaling with Loblaw have been tremendous," said Founder & CEO Josh Domingues. "We're really excited our partnership has led to such significant savings for Canadians while reducing food waste at such a large scale.  As our partnership continues to grow, we're thrilled to be able to bring more savings to more Canadians."

The Flashfood app will be rolling out to more Loblaw-owned grocery stores this year, including 38 Independent Grocer stores starting this spring and select No Frills locations. Please check individual store Facebook pages for specific program launch dates.

"This is a simple tool that helps ensure that perfectly good food ends up where it belongs ? on someone's plate and not in the landfill," Sharla Paraskevopoulos, Senior Vice President of Market Operations at Loblaw Companies Ltd. "Our stores and our customers have told us how much they love the convenience and the savings that go along with this program. We're excited to get the app into the hands of more customers in 2020."

The Flashfood app allows users to purchase a variety of food, including meat, produce, bakery items, dairy products and non-perishable food items. In the app, users can select a store, browse items, and then pay for the items they wish to purchase directly through the app. Items are then ready for in-store pick up in the designated Flashfood zone after a quick order confirmation with customer service.

About Flashfood
Flashfood is a Toronto based mobile app that operates in more than 450 grocery locations throughout Canada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Shoppers can buy items through the Flashfood app and pick them up in-store at great prices while collectively reducing food waste. To date, Flashfood has diverted over 5 million pounds of food, saved shoppers over $10m and more affordably fed hundreds of thousands of families. Flashfood is currently working with Loblaw Corp, Meijer, Hy-Vee, GIANT/MARTIN's, and SpartanNash. Flashfood is a free app available on iOS and Android. For more information, please visit: www.flashfood.com.

SOURCE Flashfood