Afresh Technologies, a fresh food management technology company, has announced the rollout of its predictive ordering and inventory management platform to more than 2,200 Albertsons Companies stores in the United States, including Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Vons and ACME. The platform, which helps store teams to better order and plan fresh produce inventory, reducing food waste and achieving superior freshness in their stores, was implemented within seven months, making it one of the fastest in-store technology rollouts in the grocery industry.
The Afresh platform also provides department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools that leverage real-time insights. The company’s CEO and co-founder, Matt Schwartz, said that “supply chain and store technology implementations typically require a multi-year transformation and radical overhauls,” but that Afresh and Albertsons Companies were able to complete the roll out of the system in just months.
Suzanne Long, Chief Sustainability and Transformation Officer at Albertsons Companies, said that “driving sustainability practices across Albertsons Cos. is essential to our business and the communities we serve. Our partnership with Afresh helps us improve ordering and better manage our inventory of fresh fruits and vegetables so our customers have access to fresher products, and we’re able to make meaningful progress toward achieving our goal to have zero food waste going to landfill by 2030.”
Afresh, which raised a $115 million series B in August (bringing their total funding to $148 million), has been gaining momentum over the past year. The company currently has its software in 3,000 stores in the US, including Heinen’s, Save Mart, Bashas, Cub Foods, and Albertsons.
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