Fresh departments drive customer choice, margin variability, and the majority of food waste. When you get fresh right, the impact shows up everywhere — sales, labor, inventory, and sustainability.
With Afresh, sustainability isn't a separate initiative. It's the outcome of better decisions in the most complex part of your operations.
Reducing food waste isn’t a tradeoff. It’s one of the fastest ways to improve business performance. Every pound of waste prevented is a pound you didn’t pay for, transport, discount, or throw away.
In a low-margin business, those gains compound quickly. The grocers leading on sustainability are the same ones leading on fresh performance — because they’ve fixed the underlying decision-making challenges.
Stores running on Afresh see, on average:
Most grocery waste lives in fresh — and fresh doesn't behave like the rest of the store. That’s why Afresh started by building AI for produce, meat, seafood, deli, and bakery. Our system accounts for the realities your teams deal with every day: short shelf lives, inconsistent data, weather-driven demand, and constant variability.
Instead of forcing fresh into systems designed for center store, we help your teams make accurate, department-level decisions — every day, in every store. That focus is what drives meaningful results and coverage across the entire store.
See why Afresh is the cornerstone solution for leading retailers.