Flashfood, a food waste reduction platform, announced Monday its expansion into Brooklyn and Queens, New York with service at Stop & Shop. Since launching the partnership in 2021, Stop & Shop and Flashfood have together diverted over 140,000 pounds of food from U.S. landfills.
Flashfood connects consumers with discounted food nearing its best by date via a mobile app. The food can be reserved and picked up at Flashfood Zones in participating stores.
"Our partnership with Flashfood has been a successful addition to our food waste diversion programs," said Gordon Reid, president of Stop & Shop, in a statement. "We're proud to deepen our commitment to reducing food waste by expanding the Flashfood program to more stores in the New York City area. Our shoppers in the boroughs can benefit from significant savings on groceries while also helping the planet."
New Yorkers will be able to access Flashfood services at six additional NYC locations throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
"We've already saved New Yorkers more than two million dollars on groceries and we're excited to make an even bigger impact throughout the city with Stop & Shop," said Josh Domingues, Flashfood's founder and CEO, in a statement. "Expanding further into the Bronx, plus adding stores in Brooklyn and Queens, means more families will have access to affordable groceries while reducing the amount of perfectly good food that ends up in landfills."
Over the past two years, Flashfood has diverted over 50 million pounds of food from ending up in landfills throughout the U.S. and Canada and has saved shoppers over $130 million in aggregate on their grocery bills. The service can be found in more than 1,450 participating stores in North America.
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