Surplus news and trends

Retail Transformations With Digital Innovations
Today In Data // February 05, 2020

Retailers that sell products and services online have been steadily removing payment frictions from their online checkout processes, adopting checkout features like refund policies and free shipping. And, in grocery, innovators are connecting retailers with shoppers to help sell surplus food that might otherwise go unsold. All this, Today...

Taking A Mobile Order-Ahead Approach To Surplus Groceries
Retail // February 04, 2020

Supermarkets buy inventory to sell to consumers, but some of those products never end up in their hands, and instead become food waste. The USDA forecasts that grocers lose a whopping $15 billion each year in unsold fruits and vegetables. And one report notes that “without accounting...