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Retailers are encouraged to dedicate an area of the store for “ugly produce.” By accepting and integrating the sale of off-grade products (different size\/shape\/color) into normal business practices, produce that would normally be discarded can be sold at a discount to shoppers.<\/p>\n
A French grocery store chain introduced an ugly fruit and vegetable campaign at all their stores across the country. The Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables campaign sells ugly produce at a 30% discount and a year after the campaign was implemented, the grocery chain saw store traffic increase by 25%, reaching 21 million people. The success of the campaign lead to other French grocery chains implementing similar programs.[\/vc_column_text][info-box-shortcode buttontitle=”How Large Food Retailers Can Help Solve the Food Waste Crisis” buttonlink=”https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/12\/how-large-food-retailers-can-help-solve-the-food-waste-crisis” targetlink=”true”][\/info-box-shortcode][info-box-shortcode buttontitle=”9 practices retailers can adopt to reduce food waste” buttonlink=”https:\/\/www.newhope.com\/staffing-and-operations\/9-practices-retailers-can-adopt-reduce-food-waste” targetlink=”true”][\/info-box-shortcode][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7335″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]To further encourage customers to purchase off-spec produce, ReFED has developed actions that can be implemented in the retail or grocer sector.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][info-box-shortcode icon=”far fa-file-pdf” buttontitle=”Retail Food Waste Action Guide” buttonlink=”https:\/\/www.refed.com\/downloads\/Retail_Guide_Web.pdf” targetlink=”true”][\/info-box-shortcode][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][info-box-shortcode icon=”fas fa-info” buttontitle=”Information about Date Labeling” buttonlink=”https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/dshw\/swpl\/fw\/residential\/#datelabel”][\/info-box-shortcode][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][breadcrumb-shortcode][vc_column_text css=””] Food Waste – Retail [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]”Ugly” Produce is Edible and Saleable. Retailers are encouraged to dedicate an area of the store for “ugly produce.” By accepting and integrating the sale of off-grade products (different size\/shape\/color) into normal business practices, produce that would normally be discarded can be sold at a discount to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"parent":1667,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n