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Afresh named to CB Insights Retail Tech 100

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Panel describes an industry committed to waste

Grocer retailers have thrown the burden of food waste over their shoulder. They are in it for the long haul. A few got together at the Southeast Produce Council’s 2023 Southern Exposure event and one thing was made clear: The tools and commitment are there, and the results are coming.

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Retailers, tech experts, growers discuss solutions for food waste, insecurity

“I think the work we're doing to kind of divert food that would otherwise go to waste is incredible, but the root cause here is inefficient supply chain — and we can do better,” Afresh President and co-founder Nathan Fenner said.

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Afresh expands its AI-powered tech beyond the produce section

The platform offers recommendations to streamline inventory and workflow operations. And now it's moving into meat, seafood, deli and foodservice.

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Afresh Technologies moves beyond fruits and vegetables

Afresh has made a name for itself by developing systems that evaluate variables like sales trends, delivery schedules, perishability and the weather and use that information to guide grocery store employees in placing orders for fruits and vegetables.

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Afresh builds on fresh produce solutions, expands fresh footprint

Current customers including Cub Foods, Fresh Thyme Market and Heinen’s have signed on for the expansion of Afresh into other core fresh departments.

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Afresh expands into meat, seafood, deli, and foodservice

After massive success in critical and challenging produce department, expansion continues to other core fresh categories 

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Afresh Technologies reports positive results from Albertsons partnership

“For the first time, grocers have a really innovative purpose-built technology that’s well-suited for fresh departments. The fresh category is a strategic differentiator for retailers, but the tech was all designed for non-fresh categories. So we’ve seen a historical underserving of these departments.”

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The 4 Best Grocery Store Stocks to Buy in 2023

On January 12, 2023, fresh food technology company Afresh Technologies and ACI announced the completion of an enterprise rollout of the Afresh predictive ordering and inventory management platform.

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How artificial intelligence is transforming the produce industry

Supermarket chains have an obligation to their customers to deliver fresh produce, at least, if they want to keep those customers. But keeping up with demand, especially amid seasonal shifts and market disruptions, makes this a complicated task. Through the adoption of AI, San Francisco start-up Afresh aims to simplify that task — and reduce waste in the process.

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6 notable tech updates from NRF Big Show

With two large exhibition floors, the National Retail Federation’s annual conference this week had hundreds of vendors, from brand-new startups to larger players like Google and Microsoft, show off their services and offerings to industry leaders.

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Why AI Could Be the Solution Your Store Needs

AI is rapidly taking the grocery industry to the next level during a time when price volatility, labor shortages and competitive markets threaten to derail its progress. Learn how Afresh is improving product freshness and customer experience with leading grocery partners like SpartanNash.

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Afresh Technologies and Albertsons Companies Implement AI-Powered Platform to Help Improve Fresh Produce Inventory and Reduce Waste Going to Landfill

Afresh platform rolled out to more than 2,200 Albertsons Cos. stores within seven months.

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Afresh Rolls Out Its AI-Powered Fresh Food Management System to 2,200 Albertsons

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.”

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Grocery 2023: Fresh is the future

No matter the year or the macroeconomic situation, the stakes for grocers are getting higher and higher. During downturns, share-of-stomach shifts from eating out to eating in, making fresh departments more important than ever.

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Albertsons, Afresh Complete AI-Powered Platform Rollout

Albertsons Cos. and Afresh Technologies have completed the enterprise rollout of Afresh’s predictive ordering and inventory management platform across almost all of Albertsons’ banner stores across the country.

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Afresh Named to Built In's 100 Best Places to Work in San Francisco

Built In announced its 2023 Best Places to Work winners, companies that foster meaningful employee experiences through cultural programs and benefits their people value. The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to those in the enterprise, and honors both remote-first employers as well as companies in the largest tech markets across the U.S.

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10 of the most promising foodtech startups, according to top VCs

VCs are looking for promising foodtech startups to back as they push for profitability over growth. Insider asked emerging and veteran foodtech VCs to recommend companies helping restaurants and food retailers improve profits at a time when every penny counts. Their picks solve real issues, from addressing food waste to finding new revenue streams.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Food Waste in Grocery Retail

Two large retailers used artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to improve their order accuracy, which led to a 14.8% average reduction in food waste per store. While the two pilots were conducted at large retailers, the AI solutions also work for smaller chains. If the entire grocery sector were to implement these solutions, an estimated 907,372 tons of food waste could be prevented, representing 13.3 million metric tons of avoided CO2e emissions and more than $2 billion in financial benefits for the sector.

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SpartanNash Enhances Produce Departments With Afresh

Afresh gives SpartanNash’s fresh department managers easy-to-use ordering tools – powered by real-time insights – to facilitate fresh ordering decisions. The platform’s leverage the expertise of associates to create a superior shopper experience and make fresh food accessible to all

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SpartanNash turns to artificial intelligence to ensure freshness, reduce waste

The grocery distributor and wholesaler is piloting predictive ordering and inventory management tech from Afresh at 10 Family Fare stores in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.

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6 words grocers added to their vocabulary lists in 2022

Food retailers learned some new words this year, while some old terms took on renewed importance.

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Afresh Receives 2022 Rabobank North America Emerging Leadership in Innovation Award

Afresh received the 2022 Rabobank North America Emerging Leadership in Innovation Award for its outstanding contribution to reducing food waste and improving the bottom line for grocery retailers.

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The companies playing with food (waste)

Pandemic bottlenecks brought the supply chain into focus, and investors have flocked to companies aiming to put a dent in food waste.

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Afresh and Cub Named to RTIH Innovation Awards Shortlist

This award recognizes a successful partnership between a retailer and a technology supplier, with an emphasis on the last 12 months and how said partnership has gone from strength to strength during that period.

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Solving Fresh Food Inventory Management

Learn how Afresh is helping grocers manage their fresh food inventory, the impacts of our tech as a whole on the company, and the "green edge" of being a sustainable grocer.

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Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz Named on the 2022 Packer 25 Influential People in Produce List

The Packer 25 is an annual tribute to 25 leaders, innovators and agents of change across the fresh produce supply chain. We're honored to be listed among such amazing industry leaders.

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Matt Schwartz Q&A with The Packer

Technology is so powerful — if we can use it effectively in the produce industry, we’ll be able to prevent waste, add days of shelf life to product, and multiply the profitability of all constituents across the supply chain. As a result, fresh-first technology unlocks the potential to drive transformative value for business, people and the planet.

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Afresh Platform Innovates and Drives Evolution Across Grocery Supply Chain; Matt Schwartz, Nathan Fenner, and Luke Anderson Discuss

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Afresh Wins Progressive Grocer Impact Award

Afresh is the winner of a 2022 Progressive Grocer Impact Award in the Sustainability/Resource Conservation category.

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Afresh Technologies is on the Rocket List 2022

Afresh is featured by Otta as a startup in a moment of truly exponential growth. They set criteria and pick companies based on 1) impressive fundraising 2) disruptive missions 3) exploding headcounts.

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Improving Product Freshness with Faster Inventory Turns at CUB

During the 3-month pilot period, Afresh helped produce teams optimize ordering and inventory management. As a result, sales increased by +2.5%, inventory holds decreased by +7.4%, and inventory turns improved by +6.7%.

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Afresh Named Top 30 Food Waste Innovation Finalist

To find new ways to prevent food surplus in stores, to exit any food surplus and to then re-use food waste, the ECR Retail Loss group, a network of hundreds of global retailers, have been on the search for innovations in partnership with Co:Cubed—an agency who monitor more than 12 million startups worldwide.

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How one grocery chain used AI to slash food waste

Cub has seen an 18% reduction in produce shrink since adopting an AI-based system from Afresh.

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Innovators Present Disruptive Technologies and Retailers Debate Convenience, Sustainability and Social Consciousness

Matt Schwartz, CEO and Co-Founder at Afresh, emphasized that, with fresh food comprising an essential part of grocery, there is a strong need for new solutions; the Afresh platform drives greater accuracy and enables better ordering and inventory decisions.

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The Supply Chain Keeps Eating Venture Capital

To look at the vast sums of venture capital going into supply chain-focused startups, it’s clear investors see an enormous market for next-generation platforms to ease various logistics pain points.

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3 San Francisco Startups Share Their Hiring Plans After Big Funding Rounds

“This round of funding proves that climate tech is important to investors and shows we’re building technology that the world needs,” CEO and co-founder Matt Schwartz said. “I am certainly excited about this financing, but I’m more energized by our team, the phenomenal work we do to be of service to our grocery customers and the positive social impact we’re making.”

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Afresh Wins AgTech Breakthrough Award

Afresh was named "Freshness Control Solution of the Year" by the AgTech Breakthrough Awards.

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Cub Foods goes chainwide with fresh food platform

Cub Foods is implementing Afresh Technologies’ Fresh Operating System across its store base to sharpen management of fresh food operations.

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Cub Deploys Afresh’s AI-Powered Fresh Operating System

Minnesota food retailer Cub has rolled out across its corporate stores the Fresh Operating System from Afresh Technologies, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered technology built specifically for fresh categories within grocery.

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CUB Rolls Out Afresh's AI-Powered Fresh Operating System After Seeing Transformational Results

Afresh Technologies, the leading provider of AI-powered technology built specifically for Fresh categories within grocery stores, announced today the rollout of its Fresh Operating System across CUB stores. After utilizing Afresh's predictive ordering and merchandising solution in select stores, CUB, Minnesota's largest grocery store serving millions of customers each month, quickly recognized significant improvements to inventory turns and product freshness for consumers, material labor efficiencies for store personnel, and a profound reduction in food waste across their supply chain. Read more here.

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Sharing Our $115M Series B — and Why We Started Afresh

$115M in Series B funding provides a significant amount of capital to accelerate our vision of a fresher future, preventing millions, then billions, of pounds of food from going to waste along the way.

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Afresh bags $115M to extend fresh food premise

Afresh's fresh food software platform got a $115 million vote of confidence earlier this month in a Series B round led by Spark Capital.

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Afresh Named #1 to Fortune 100 Best Small Workplaces

Afresh was named #1 on Fortune's 100 Best Small Workplaces list.

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Food waste tech firm Afresh raises $115M

Afresh, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to help reduce food waste at grocery stores, has raised $115 in a Series B round led by Spark Capital, according to a press release last week. Walter Robb, senior executive partner at S2G Ventures and former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, participated in the round.

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From Grad School Project to $115 Million Series B: Afresh’s Matt Schwartz on Building an Operating System for Fresh Food

Learn what inspired Afresh co-founders Matt Schwartz, Nathan Fenner and Volodymyr Kuleshov, to create the world's first purpose-built solution for fresh from The Spoon.

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Afresh Secures $115 Million in Series B Funding and Rolls Out its Fresh Food Technology to Thousands of Stores Across the US

Afresh will use the investment to scale across thousands of stores and expand the footprint of its flexible solution for forecasting, inventory, ordering, and store operations.

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Food-Waste Tech Company Afresh Raises $115 Million in Funding

Afresh Technologies Inc., which makes software that helps grocery stores reduce food waste, raised $115 million in new funding.

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Announcing $115 Million Series B Funding Round for Afresh

Afresh builds grocery retail technology that reduces shrink, prevents food waste, and gives customers fresher perishables. With our $115 million Series B round, Afresh is ready for rocketship growth.

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100 Best Small and Medium Workplaces for Millennials

Employees say: “Leadership is extremely transparent about what’s going on with company and where we’re headed, and at the same time provide so much enthusiasm and energy to the people that work for them. Not only are we developing a technology that will save companies millions of dollars, but we are having an even larger impact on decreasing the amount of food that is wasted in the grocery supply chain. That’s incredible!”

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Fighting Food Waste: Achieving Sustainability and Profitability in Fresh

Becoming a more sustainable business while maximizing profits is a balancing act today’s grocery retailers are continually challenged to perform. Progressive Grocer reached out to Matt Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Afresh, to learn how the company’s AI-powered Fresh Operating System can help grocery retailers achieve that balance by reducing food waste in fresh.

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4 companies that are powering retail’s tech transformation

Retail is an industry of innovation, constantly changing to meet the demands of customers. That’s why NRF invited Afresh to share how technology advances are transforming the retail industry at The Retail Experience at the 2022 Retail Advocates Summit on July 28.

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40 Under 40 Class of 2022: Saluting Rising Stars of the Industry

This year’s winners of the 40 Under 40 Produce Business awards illustrate the strength and depth of the industry’s talent — and each one has demonstrated leadership growth and keen insight into building our industry. Afresh CEO and co-founder Matt Schwartz is honored to receive this award.

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Afresh employees fight food waste with kindness – and tech

If working for a company that has ambitions to change the world is the dream, then the 160-plus employees of Afresh have passed the “living the dream” stage of evolution and moved on to implementing the dream. San Francisco company Afresh, ranked third among small businesses on the Top Workplaces list, is on a mission to “eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.” It says it is on track to prevent 34 million pounds of food waste by the end of 2022.

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Think Forward: How 3 San Francisco Tech Companies Foster Innovation

Learn how Afresh's culture of innovation drives transformation for the fresh food supply chain in this Q&A with CTO Jeff Kolesky.

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Fresh Food: Every Grocer's Most Promising Growth Opportunity

Fresh food is a huge growth opportunity in grocery retail, but it's not easy to meet demand for quality or quantity. Browse our infographic to learn more.

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Opportunities in Fresh: 2022 Report

Grocers are growing their fresh selection to meet consumer demand, we explore how they've been handling shared industry challenges over the past few years.

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Afresh Named to Forbes 75 Best Small and Medium Workplaces in the Bay Area

Afresh aims to eliminate food waste and increase food access with AI-powered solutions built specifically for the unique challenges in the fresh food supply chain.

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Q&A with Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz

Too Good To Go is always eager to share more background on the many creative solutions being used by sustainable companies to fight food waste. For example, how can optimized demand planning help the planet? That’s where Afresh Technologies is disrupting grocery retail for the better. Afresh Technologies offers grocery retailers an operating system built specifically to help them stock fresher food and reduce waste. Too Good to Go recently sat down with their CEO Matt Schwartz, to chat about Afresh’s approach to sustainability, the importance of data, and his thoughts on the future of food.

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Protecting Profits for Your Top Three Produce Items

Keeping bananas, avocados, and berries fresh and full in grocery stores maintains sales, builds basket size, and makes customers happy.

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My Relationship to Climate Change

While focused on API performance and scalability as a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Afresh, Harry Kao joined the organization first and foremost to help reverse climate change. Learn more about the motivation underlying his daily work – and its impact on the planet.

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Food Waste: A Solvable Problem

Every year, $1 trillion of food gets thrown away, and the cost is much higher in the long run. Read our free ebook to answer questions like: What is food waste; how do we fix the food waste problem; and what can we all do to help keep food out of landfills.

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Afresh Named to CB Insights AI 100: Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups of 2022

CB Insights has unveiled the winners of the sixth annual AI 100 — a list of the 100 most promising private AI companies across the globe. Afresh was included under the retail industry-specific application.

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2021 Impact Report

Afresh is a small but growing startup that's taking on climate change and so far we've helped grocery stores prevent more than 6.9 million total pounds of food waste! Find out what that can do for the planet in our first-ever impact report.

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Celebrating Stop Food Waste Day with Solutions Across the Supply Chain

Food waste is a solvable problem, but it will take a village to get there. To shine a light on the important solutions already at work to eliminate food waste, Afresh hosted a webinar with Imperfect Foods, Apeel, and Too Good to Go.

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Afresh Named Honorable Mention in Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards

The North America category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors the best world-changing idea overall in North America. Afresh was named Honorable Mention.

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Leaving My Mark On This Planet

With a Ph.D. in Space Science and a career that has spanned startups to tech giants, Director of Machine Learning Lois K. Smith is no stranger to exciting challenges. Still, it wasn’t until she interviewed with Afresh that she learned how she could apply her gift of a love for research to help eliminate food waste.

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Solutions Across the Supply Chain: A Stop Food Waste Day Webinar

Food waste happens in every segment of the supply chain, which means we all have a role to play in limiting it. From farms to restaurants, grocery stores and households, there are plenty of opportunities for delicious innovation. On April 27th, Imperfect Foods, Too Good To Go, Afresh and Apeel shared some groundbreaking efforts already at work safeguarding an avocado’s journey from the fields to your fridge. Learn how you can be part of the solution too!

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5 Practical Ways Grocery Stores Can Reduce Food Waste

Across the grocery store, fresh teams struggle to prevent food from ending up in the landfill. Read these actionable tips store teams can start using now.

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Imperfect Foods, Too Good to Go, Afresh, Apeel announce Stop Food Waste Day Event

April 27th is Stop Food Waste Day and four companies are banding together for an online discussion to talk about how technology innovation is being used to combat the problem. In the US, 35% of all food is unsold or uneaten, translating to $408 billion in wasted food at a time when 1 in 8 Americans are food insecure. Imperfect Foods, Too Good to Go, Afresh, and Apeel will discuss how stopping food waste can help curb climate change and highlight some of the important work already being done.

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40 Under 40: Matt Schwartz, Afresh

Matt Schwartz is CEO of Afresh Technologies and was named to the San Francisco Business Times' 40 Under 40.

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Food Waste Innovation: Good for Business, Essential for the Earth

AI can enable detailed waste tracking that offers retailers insights into which products they are throwing away and when and why that waste occurs. Technologies that quantify, categorize, and pick up patterns in food waste can help companies optimize their supply and offerings based on data. For example, by using Afresh's AI-based platform, retailers have avoided wasting 6.9 million pounds of food.

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Technology Delivers Sustainable Solutions that Transform Fresh

Sustainability is a topic grocery retailers know they must address. That is especially important in their fresh departments, where food waste has become a key supply chain challenge. Matt Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Afresh, explains how the Afresh Fresh Operating System enables fresh teams to champion sustainability, prevent waste, and keep shelves full and fresh, too.

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Attracting and Retaining Talent in Fresh Departments

Fresh departments are the most important—and most difficult—to manage and that means stores need top employees that stick around + better training tools for new team members. Fresh-first technology is the right tool for the right job. It helps employees be more effective, drives adherence and retention, and improves employee happiness.

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Top 100 Companies for Diverse Representation

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Celebrating Our Birthday: 5 Things We’ve Learned in 5 Years at Afresh

Afresh was founded in 2017 with the mission of eliminating food waste and making fresh food accessible to all. Since then, we’ve learned so much! Here’s a taste of what we’ve uncovered after five years focused on fresh.

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Podcast: Conquering Food Waste with Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz

Food waste, and particularly waste from fresh meats and vegetables, is a continued drag on grocers’ bottom lines. Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz sits down with Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga of Omni Talk for a special Shoptalk Edition of the their ongoing Spotlight Series to share how his company helps grocers solve this problem.

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Why Perpetual Inventory is a Perpetual Failure in Fresh

Grocery stores and supermarkets need tech that makes ordering easy, accurate, and agile everyday, real-time dynamics of perishable fresh foods.

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Finding Value Alignment with a Mission-Driven Company

Afresh Customer Success Lead Julia knew she wanted to find value alignment between her work and her personal desire to contribute to climate solutions. Her search led her to find a like-minded community at Afresh that is similarly motivated to leverage their skillsets towards making real change.

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Podcast: Tip of the Iceberg with Matt Schwartz

Tune in to hear Matt Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Afresh, discuss how the perimeter of the store is the showpiece, and often the competitive factor in the most successful retailers.

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The Afresh Platform vs. Center Store Supply Chain Solutions

Apples don't grow in boxes with barcodes, so why use a system that treats them like they do? Afresh brings best-in-class workflows to fresh, improving shelf life, efficiency, and driving sales.

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From Dreadful to Delightful: Making Order Writing Fun in Fresh

For decades, fresh department employees have dreaded the time-consuming task of placing an order. Although the process has evolved some, store teams want tools that empower their decision-making instead of leaving them behind in the digital dust.

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San Francisco Business Times' 2022 40 Under 40 honorees

Meet the first group of San Francisco Business Times' 2022 40 Under 40 Honorees, including Afresh CEO Matt Schwartz.

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Celebrating Supermarket Employee Day

The hurdles, challenges, and successes grocery store employees face are nothing short of remarkable. Celebrate their hard work during Supermarket Employee Day on February 22.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Afresh

Afresh's commitment to our communities extends beyond our products and technologies. We’re creating a workplace that embraces diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), and where everyone can make an impact while being celebrated for their fully authentic selves.

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Leveraging technology to tackle record food waste highs

From blockchain and IoT, to AI and analytics, technology is being harnessed to tackle global food waste, which is now at record highs.

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Optimizing Grocery Retail: Using AI Simulations in Fresh

Most tech-enabled grocery retailers rely on ordering solutions that aren’t optimized for perishability, variety, and variability. In order to truly win at fresh, grocers need fresh-first solutions.

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Staying Stocked in Fresh with Valentine’s Day Must-haves

Keep out-of-stocks low and customer satisfaction high this Valentine's Day (or any holiday) with orders that meet consumer demand for fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat.

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SF-Marin Food Bank, partnering with Afresh, seeks volunteers to help feed families devastated by the pandemic

It’s not often that a tech company and a nonprofit have goals that are so closely aligned. Afresh Technologies, Inc., is a San Francisco-based software publisher whose use of artificial intelligence enables grocery retailers to meet customers’ demand for produce. Similarly, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is trying to satisfy the basic human need for nourishment, despite a dearth of volunteers to deliver the goods. So it made sense that Afresh teamed up with the food bank and in November began offering its employees to work on the front lines handing out free staples to hungry families.

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How to Address Labor Shortages in Fresh Departments

Labor shortages have been a problem for grocery stores and supermarkets for years and COVID-19 made those numbers skyrocket. Here’s what to do about it.

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The Shift To A Circular Economy: How Tech Is Shaping The Future Of Sustainable Retail

Consumers are increasingly pushing for sustainable business practices in retail, driving businesses to reassess what they produce — and how.

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Afresh Named to Built In SF 22 San Francisco Startups to Watch in 2022

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Albertsons taps Afresh food waste reduction tech

Albertsons Companies is set to deploy an AI powered platform from Afresh Technologies across its more than 2,200 supermarkets in 34 US states.The predictive ordering and inventory solutions will help it to optimise fresh food forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations.

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  • Industry Insights
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Keys to Success in 2022: Trends, Challenges and Solutions

Grocery retailers will face challenges related to labor and retention, supply and demand, sustainability, and accelerated trends. Win market share with Afresh.

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Solution Brief: Afresh Overview

Afresh Fresh Operating System unifies merchandising, forecasting, ordering, and store operations for fresh departments, helping stores take fulfillment to the next level while improving sustainability, sales, and shelf life.

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The Afresh Platform vs. Pen & Paper

For too long, store teams have been left to rely on guesswork and outdated tooling for fresh orders. Afresh combines AI with your team's expertise to make sure fresh stays the star of your stores.

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Solution Brief: How Afresh Helps Grocery Retail IT Teams

Afresh transforms your fresh department with powerful AI insights, a best-in-class workflow, reliable security, and effortless scalability – all with minimal IT investment.

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Albertsons Companies Selects Afresh Technologies AI Platform

Afresh's AI-powered Fresh Operating System will further Albertsons Cos.' commitment to be the best in fresh and reduce food waste.

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Albertsons Companies selects Afresh Technologies AI platform

Albertsons Companies will enhance its fresh offering with Afresh Technologies’ AI-powered predictive ordering and inventory solutions to reduce waste and offer the freshest product for customers. Afresh will help Albertsons Cos.' optimize fresh forecasting, inventory, ordering, merchandising and operations. Afresh Technologies enables Albertsons Cos. to deploy a state-of-the-art AI technology platform in all its stores to further differentiate its fresh offering to customers while helping to reduce food waste, ultimately reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and saving water.

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Albertsons partners with Afresh Technologies

Fresh supply chain specialist Afresh Technologies is partnering with Albertsons to help the retailer reduce waste, increase sales and provide its customers with the freshest foods. Under the deal, all Albertsons banner stores will use Afresh’s Fresh Operating System.

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