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Spoiler Alert: Combatting Food Waste with data-driven decisions
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Spoiler Alert is a Boston based B2B technology platform that aims to help food manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and grocery retailers manage unsold inventory more effectively. Alongside, it is also a marketplace that facilitates the movement of food-'at risk of expiry', to secondary markets for sale/ as a donation.

Problem

Often, the CPG market players and local retail store-chains have a surplus from the product promotion plans, short-dated, discontinued Eatable Product Categorie(s), at distribution centres or at their physical outlets. Inopportune sales causing the products to expire on the shelves, leading to wastage of edible food.

Solution

Spoiler Alert is a pioneering technology, that is "industry’s only purpose-built sales and analytics platform designed to digitize liquidation processes and bring a first-class experience to the secondary market. Spoiler Alert introduces intelligence and automation into existing workflows to deliver more sales, faster service, and an improved customer experience."

Outcome

"Keeping good product from going to waste" "customers recover more value from their distressed inventory - good for the planet, good for their discount retail and nonprofit partners, and good for their bottom line".


1. Efficient forecast of saleable products

2. Optimization of the inventory allocation at the distributor level or the store outlet.

3. Diversion of packaged food products from being wasted

4. Improved bottom line for both the suppliers and their customers.

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