Case Study: Stora Coop reduces food waste with Upshop

The Path to Zero, How Stora Coop Transformed Food Waste into Opportunity

The grocery store Stora Coop Visby, a sustainability leader, faced a significant challenge with its manual process for tracking food expiration dates. This system was slow and time-consuming for staff, preventing them from focusing on other tasks and making it difficult to catch at-risk products early. Their ambitions to reduce waste were also hindered by a lack of data for making stock and procurement decisions. To overcome this, they turned to vendor Upshop for a solution.

Upshop implemented its Expiry Management solution, which provided a digital store layout to efficiently identify products nearing expiration. This gave Stora Coop valuable data to customize their assortment and order volumes based on facts instead of gut feelings. The results from Upshop's tools were a dramatic 86% reduction in waste and a 70% decrease in the time staff spent checking dates, transforming their operations and sustainability efforts.

Stora Coop

Markus Wahlgren

Store Manager