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FOOD WASTE

Cumbria retailers tackle food waste

Nisa Local store in Barrow-in-Furness are encouraging their customers to use food waste app Gander.

A recently launched Nisa Local store in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, is partnering with app Gander to tackle food waste.

The solution enables the store to list reduced to clear products onto the app, which sends alerts to those who are signed up. They then call into the store, knowing what products are available. The app updates in real-time meaning as soon as a product is sold it no longer appears on the app. The app is free to download from the Apple and Android app stores.

Retailers Karen and Paul Stephenson are promoting the app in store to encourage customers to download it and help reduce the amount of food going to waste and save money at the same time.

Karen said: “We have a really big fresh range in the store which means there is a risk of high levels of waste, especially as it is still early days and shoppers are getting used to what we stock and so we are still tailoring the range.

“The Gander app works really well at a local level. When reductions are made in store, customers are alerted and can then pop in to get their bargain. As well as highlighting savings to our local community it also helps to reduce waste and the amount of food going to landfills so the store and our customers are able to play a small part in sustainability and tackling the global issue of climate change.”

The Gander app is also proving popular with other Nisa retailers. In August it was announced that CK Foodstores, in South Wales, is rolling out the food waste app to 23 stores.