The UK’s leading surplus redistributor Company Shop Group and food surplus app Too Good To Go have teamed up to establish a new partnership to prevent even more surplus food from going to waste, whilst helping families most in need.
The partnership will see Company Shop Group sell Too Good To Go’s ‘Magic Bags’, each packed with perfectly good to eat items that are approaching their Best Before date. Users of the Too Good To Go app will then be able to search, select, and collect an available Magic Bag from any of the 14 Company Shop stores across England and Scotland.
Alongside helping to prevent even more food from unnecessarily going to waste, the money raised from the sale of the bags will then be donated to the Group’s award-winning social enterprise, Community Shop, helping to fund its store expansion programme which will enable it to support even more families and communities.
Community Shop supports those living on the cusp of food poverty by providing access to high-quality, low-cost food and essential products, as well as providing members with access to life-changing learning and development programmes. As the Group business model is intrinsically sustainable, the new partnership combines the collective desire to reduce even more food waste, whilst delivering long-term change in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities.
The national roll out of this partnership follows the successful pilot across Company Shop stores.
As two leading players in the redistribution space, this latest innovative collaboration will see Company Shop Group further expand its capacity and capabilities to redistribute surplus food as it helps to provide solutions for the industry and for families most in need.
David Lennon, Deputy Managing Director at Company Shop Group said:
