Food waste occurs across all parts of the supply chain. SPAR has developed various partnerships and initiatives to support waste reduction goals throughout different operations of production, distribution, product processing and storage. SPAR wholesalers and retailers implement digital solutions to monitor goods in stores, warehouses and logistics centres and track products about to reach their sell-by date.
The partnership with Too Good To Go sees SPAR shoppers join this meaningful journey of battling food waste. A UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Food Waste Index shows that out of 931 million tonnes of food waste generated in 2019, 61% comes specifically from households. The high percentage highlights the importance of finding solutions that enable consumers to change their behaviour, thus extending a positive impact to the households. Since the launch of the international partnership with Too Good To Go in 2020, over 2,000 SPAR stores and customers have reduced food waste in this convenient and simple way.
Every day, SPAR stores include products approaching their best-before date in the Surprise Bags available for SPAR shoppers through the Too Good To Go app. Once downloaded, customers can reserve their Surprise Bag, stop at their local SPAR at a set time for pickup and know they have made a positive impact.
After reaching this milestone of 5 million Surprise Bags saved, SPAR is grateful that consumers embraced this solution and contribute to collective effort of all SPAR partners to reduce food waste in 13 SPAR countries.
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Read more about SPAR’s overall responsible retailing strategy and the areas we focus on within our environmental impact reduction programme.
