Giant Eagle expands partnership with Flashfood, an app that lets you find marked-down deals from home

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Big Eagle is extending its partnership with Flashfood, an app that lets clients purchase discounted meals near its sell-by date, to all its shops after a trial run that stored hundreds of kilos of meals from being wasted.

Big Eagle is increasing Flashfood to all its 173 company Big Eagle and Market District shops in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The roll out will probably be completed by the top of October, the corporate mentioned in a information launch.

Flashfood is an app that lets clients purchase discounted meals that shops have marked down. It has a variety of things, like meats, yogurts, and ready meals which have looming sell-by dates.

Tuesday morning on the Berea Big Eagle, for instance, the app confirmed a dice steak that was $11.64, down from $23.28 as a result of its best-by date was Wednesday. The app additionally had pre-shredded Asiago cheese, potato salad and peeled garlic cloves.

It’s the identical clearance stickers a consumer may even see in retailer, however the app lets them browse for offers earlier than heading out and lets them verify and totally different places for various offers.

Prospects can discover offers on the app, purchase them, after which choose up their order on the “Flashfood zone” on the retailer.

It saves clients cash, but it surely additionally reduces emissions and retains meals out of landfills, based on Flashfood. Big Eagle launched this system at 34 shops in 2021, and greater than 430,000 kilos of meals waste was diverted due to the app.

In response to a information launch, that quantity of meals is the same as 159,000 meals, and 834,000 kilos of CO2 emission not getting into the environment.

“Our partnership with Flashfood has not solely helped us in our mission to cut back meals waste, but it surely has helped us higher serve our visitors and their households by providing extra value-focused grocery choices,” mentioned Dan Donovan, a Big Eagle spokesperson.

“With the success we’ve seen up to now, it was a pure subsequent step to develop this system to all our company grocery store places to supply extra visitors entry to this financial savings alternative whereas making an excellent larger impression on the surroundings.”

Consumers can go to flashfood.com/places/residence to seek out shops which are collaborating.

Big Eagle isn’t the one grocery-chain on the app. The web site reveals some Meijer places are additionally utilizing Flashfood.