Too Good To Go: Fighting Inflation and Food Waste in Mauricie with a New App

2023-06-08 01:54:13

In times of inflation, a new application attracts the attention of customers and merchants in Mauricie.

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At the end of the day, the breads from certain bakeries will be sold at a third of their price in a surprise basket on the Too Good To Go application. An initiative that allows merchants not to accumulate unsold products, in addition to making sample their wares.




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A total of 25 merchants are active on the application, in Mauricie, but there are also restaurateurs such as Rôtisseries Ti-Coq who turn to the application to sell meals at low prices that have never been claimed.

In catering, order errors are recurrent: unclaimed orders, product errors, communication problems. The trade therefore puts boxes of fries for sale on the application for a lower price. This allows him to avoid losses.

Boxes of surprise products are selling like hot cakes. In a maximum of 20 minutes, the merchants’ boxes find all takers.

Many of its products would normally have ended up in organizations like Moisson Mauricie Centre-du-Québec.




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The deputy director of the organization confirmed to TVA Nouvelles that she fears soon a negative impact on the quantity of food she receives.

Each year, nearly 99,000 tonnes of food are lost or wasted in Mauricie. The equivalent of 33 times the area of ​​La Mauricie National Park.

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