The Save Mart Companies partners with Flashfood

The Save Mart Companies has announced a partnership with Flashfood. Flashfood’s free app connects shoppers with fresh produce, meat and other high-quality groceries at up to 50% off, aiming to divert food waste from landfills.

The Flashfood app is now available at 44 Lucky stores in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and will rapidly expand to all 194 of The Save Mart Companies’ banner locations in California and Western Nevada to fulfill customer demand. Using the Flashfood app, shoppers can select a Lucky store location, choose discounted items to purchase, pay directly on the app and pick up the order in store. SNAP EBT payment capabilities are also built into the platform.

More than 11 million tons of food went to waste in 2022 in California alone; equivalent to 19 billion meals (ReFED), according to a release. 

The Save Mart Companies, a Kingswood Capital Management, LP portfolio company and a California-based grocer, operates 194 Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx stores in California and Western Nevada. In addition to its retail operation, the Company also operates SMART Refrigerated Transport and is a partner in Super Store Industries (“SSI”), which owns and operates a distribution center in Lathrop, and the Sunnyside Farms dairy processing plant in Turlock. Save Mart has some 13,000 associates.