The new app enables Flashfood’s grocery partners to power faster, smarter and more efficient surplus operations

TORONTO, ON – May 12, 2026 — Flashfood, the leading marketplace for surplus groceries, today announced Flashfood For Partners, a new app for its retail partners. The app’s technology is designed to deliver better ROI within existing operations by powering more efficient and trackable shrink reduction. This grows the supply on Flashfood’s marketplace, increasing access to affordable groceries for Flashfood shoppers and keeping more food out of landfills.

Flashfood For Partners was built in close collaboration with Flashfood’s retail partners and designed to reduce friction and improve insights at all touchpoints: reducing the time it takes to post items and improving the reporting tools and functionality within the app. With enhanced posting tools and in-app reporting, retailers can post items faster, recover more margin, and further reduce shrink.

Key new capabilities on the app include:

• Bulk Posting: Enabling store associates to scan and post up to 10 items at once, in under 30 seconds.
• Smarter Scanning: Better barcode recognition, weighted item scanning, and auto-filled product information.
• Reporting Dashboard: A real-time reporting dashboard gives store teams a live view of the dollar value of items posted and sold, making it easier than ever to track ROI in real time.

“Every technology we build is designed to reduce friction and create more value on both sides of our marketplace. The new app is just the beginning,” said Yixin Zhu, VP of Engineering at Flashfood. “Retailers today rely largely on manual labor and guesswork to manage their surplus food, and that contributes to the billions of dollars of retail food waste each year. Our grocery partner app attacks both of those challenges by enabling store teams to post more food faster, and see in real time the dollar value of what’s posted and sold.”

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Flashfood For Partners enhanced scanning capabilities are powered by Scandit, a leader in smart data capture technology. By leveraging Scandit’s Smart Label Capture, the app instantly captures and processes multiple barcodes and product details with high accuracy. This reduces manual input and minimizes posting errors. Store associates can scan items more efficiently, with support for bulk posting workflows and automatic best-by date capture directly from product labels, helping teams save time while improving data quality and consistency.

About Flashfood

Flashfood is on a mission to feed families, not landfills. The app marketplace connects shoppers with fresh produce, meat and other groceries at discounted prices. By partnering with retailers across North America, Flashfood offers shoppers nutritious staples at affordable prices, and reduces the amount of food going to landfills. To date, Flashfood has rerouted more than 160 million pounds of food from landfills while saving its shoppers more than $400 million on their groceries. Flashfood is a B-Corp certified company currently partnered with more than 2,000 stores across North America. For more information, please visit www.flashfood.com.

Source: Flashfood

During seven years of partnership with the Flashfood waste reduction app, Loblaw Companies has saved money by diverting food from landfills nationwide.

Loblaw Companies Limited — one of Canada’s largest retailers — has been utilizing the Flashfood app, which offers discounts of up to 50% on groceries nearing their sell-by date with the goal of diverting food waste from landfills, since 2019. 

During that time, Loblaw says it has saved more than $295 million and diverted more than 105 million pounds of food. In 2025, the food and pharmacy retailer says this partnership saw more than 21 million pounds of food diverted from landfill and saved customers more than $58 million on groceries. 

This supports Loblaw’s goal of sending zero food to landfills by 2030. The partnership also continued to expand its reach during 2025, growing by more than 92,000 new Flashfood shoppers nationwide.

“Reducing food waste takes practical solutions at scale – and it works best when it’s easy for our customers to take part in,” said Jonathan Carroll, senior VP, superstore operations and enterprise champion of food waste reduction initiatives at Loblaw. “Through our partnership with Flashfood, shoppers can purchase good food at a discounted price before it goes to waste, helping keep it out of landfill while getting great value on everyday groceries.”

[READ MORE: Flashfood upgrades app interface, shopping features]

First launched at Maxi grocery stores in 2019, Flashfood is now available in more than 900 Loblaw grocery stores and franchise locations across Canada, including select No Frills, Maxi, Real Canadian Superstore, Real Atlantic Superstore, Loblaws, Real Canadian Wholesale Club, Zehrs, Your Independent Grocer, Provigo and Dominion stores in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Other retailers operating in the grocery space that have piloted and deployed Flashfood in the past few years include Kroger, Earth Fare, Save Mart, Giant Food, Meijer, Hy-Vee and SpartanNash.

“Loblaw has been an exceptional collaborator from the beginning of our partnership together,” said Jordan Schenck, CEO of Flashfood. “They have consistently demonstrated industry leadership by embracing innovation that improves the lives of their shoppers. Their commitment to our shared mission has brought Flashfood to every province across the country and helped thousands of Canadians put fresh, affordable food on the table.”

Source: Chain Store Age