Stop & Shop is rolling out Flashfood to its Pawtucket and Providence, RI, stores following a successful pilot. Flashfood is a digital marketplace that strives to eliminate food waste at the retail level by connecting consumers with discounted food nearing its best-by date. As a result of the program’s impact to date, Flashfood has diverted 30 million pounds of food from ending up in landfills throughout the U.S. and Canada and has saved shoppers almost $90 million in aggregate on their grocery bills.

Jacobs Farm del Cabo is making significant progress in its ClimateLab efforts, a program focused on building a more inclusive, climate-resilient food system. For close to 40 years, the company has helped hundreds of small-scale, organic family farms and increased farmer incomes by 10 times, yet climate-related events have rapidly become the most significant threat to protecting and ensuring those gains for thousands of farmers and their families.

For years consumers have been clamoring for transparency and sustainability from the companies they support — whether they be suppliers or retailers. More often than not these expectations are placed on those in the produce industry, perhaps more so than others within the supermarket.

Naturipe announced the debut of its new greenhouse strawberries from Mexico. Naturipe Berry Growers, an owner of Naturipe Farms, has partnered in a strawberry greenhouse project based in central Mexico.

The project is in its first full acreage production and is a partnership between Naturberry and Berry Hill (grower Ignacio Castillo and his son Ignacio Castillo Jr.). The new strawberry greenhouse project focuses on utilizing pioneering technologies to grow strawberries.

BrightFarms Inc., which has six commercial, indoor farms across the East Coast and Midwest, made two big moves this summer that point to continued growth and a bright future.

The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation announced that Agua Bonita and Matriark Foods were peer-selected for impact investment funding during its first-ever Venture Showcase, an event highlighting the second cohort of its Innovation Fund.