Accueil » [case study] With Smartway’s AI, Auchan Retail targets a food breakage rate of 0.75% [case study] With Smartway’s AI, Auchan Retail targets a food breakage rate of 0.75% At Paris Retail Week, and while Smartway has just received €1.4 million in funding as part of the i-Nov innovation competition under Plan France 2030, Martine Demaret, Program Manager Officer at Auchan Retail, Delia Lourenco, Zebra Technologies Account Manager and Christophe Menez, Co-Founder of Smartway, present the results of their partnership to reduce food waste. Through Sophie Baqué. Published on 23 September 2024 à 13h12 - Update on 23 September 2024 à 15h08 Resources The context Since 2020, Auchan Retail (turnover of €32.3 billion in 2023, including 51% in France, Ebitda of €1 billion) has been reducing food waste in partnership with Smartway. The service supplies technology to diminish food waste, digitalised and driven by AI. After a pilot in Romania in 2020, Smartway technology has been implemented at 349 Auchan supermarkets in France between January and June 2022. The programme was extended to 10 countries in June 2023. “Supermarkets lose between 2% and 3% of turnover due to food waste.… Sophie Baqué Auchan RetailCSRdataSmartway À lire Waste: Brussels wants binding targets for textiles and food [Food retail Barometer] 6 charts to understand the financial health of the world's Top 10 in 2023
