Case Study: Southern Co-op achieves lower food waste and better markdowns with Retail Insight WasteInsight

Southern Co-op sells more and wastes less with WasteInsight

Southern Co-op, a regional UK consumer co-operative, faced challenges with inefficient food waste and markdown processes. Their traditional system used fixed price markdowns that didn't account for factors like volume or weather, leading to imbalances in sell-through, customer availability issues, and higher waste. To address this, they partnered with Retail Insight to implement its WasteInsight markdown optimization solution.

The solution from Retail Insight automated and optimized markdown processes, providing better visibility into which items required price reductions. This enabled Southern Co-op to steer its strategy with clear goals and track store compliance. As a result, the retailer achieved significant measurable impacts, including food waste reduction to 0.19% of sales and overall waste reductions of 0.97% of sales in 2021 versus 2019.

Southern Co-op

Charles Duthie

Head of Commercial Operations