Local app fights food waste
Radio-Canada profiles local man Johny Saliby who’s come up with a new phone app to fight food waste by helping restaurants, grocery stores and so on make food available at a lower price preferable to throwing it away. I’ve just installed Sauvegarde on my phone and see several local establishments on it, will post about how well it works later.
mare 20:50 on 2022-09-06 Permalink
Invent is a big word, I have already three other apps on my phone that do something similar but not only in Canada*. The hard part is that they all need to ‘recruit’ stores to populate their app so it becomes/ stays useful. That costs time and money (lots of it) so the app makers basically use VC money to provide cheap food. Until one of them wins the biggest clients, dominates the market and the other apps will die.
Coincidentally I used TooGoodToGo today, for the third time. I’m not sure the food I got today, two *very* nice frozen vegetarian quiches, were really going to waste, but maybe they were in a freezer for a while. It feels weird because I’m not foodbank poor, and people who really need it don’t have time to cycle (or drive, or take a bus) to an industrial location in St-Michel during business hours to pick up a meal for two.
*TooGoodToGo FoodHero Flashfood Karma. I see they’re mentioned in the article too.
Mary 08:16 on 2022-09-07 Permalink
And Foodprint, Une Bonne Chance