Waste 360

End-to-end control of shrink, markdowns, and donations

Turn food waste into opportunity at every stage of the product lifecycle.

Turn food waste into opportunity at every stage of the product lifecycle.

“Since introducing the Upshop solution, we have seen a reduction in the amount of time we spend date code checking, a reduction in out of code products and a happier team of shop floor partners who have welcomed the new process.”
Chris Jenkins Retail Operations Process Design Manager, Waitrose

Freshness First

Expiry Date Management

  • Track at-risk products and speed up date checking, ensuring no expiring items goes unnoticed
  • Ensure compliance with store routines and food safety policies by logging every check for full visibility
  • Access a centralized reporting dashboard to analyze and measure waste metrics

Smart Discounts

Markdown Optimization

  • Automatically calculate the best discount and markdown near-expiry products, maximizing profits and reducing waste
  • AI-driven markdowns factor in real-time inventory, time, location, price elasticity and PoS data
  • Integrates with nearly all hardware like Zebra handhelds, ESLs and label printers

Give Back

Donation Management

  • Simplify surplus food donations with full traceability while staying compliant and giving back
  • Digitally track and allocate surplus products to food banks, and notify partners when pickups are ready
  • Generate detailed donation reports to support potential tax deductions

Expiration Date Management

Identify and prioritize products nearing expiration with digital date tracking

Dive into Expiration Management

Markdown Optimization

Use Markdown Optimization to discount products before expiry, ensuring maximum sell-through

Dive into Markdown Optimization

Donation Management

Donation Management makes it easy to donate surplus, supporting compliance and community impact

Dive into Donation Management

Analytics

Monitor sustainability KPIs across stores, measure waste reduction and engage associates through gamified progress tracking

The Path to Zero

How Stora Coop reduced food waste by 86%.

Stora Coop Visby, a sustainability leader on Sweden’s largest island, replaced manual date-checking with a digital solution. By leveraging data over intuition, they’ve reduced waste, improved efficiency, and made operations smarter and more sustainable.

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Cutting Food Waste by 40%

at Sweden’s largest grocery chain.

Together with ICA, we took a deep dive into what really drives food waste. Manual date checks, inefficient markdowns, and limited customer engagement were contributing to unnecessary waste and daily inefficiencies.

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Accurate, Reliable Date Checks

across 900+ stores.

One Stop, a Tesco subsidiary, replaced labor-intensive manual date checks with a streamlined digital solution, cutting expiration check times by 50%. This innovation boosted efficiency, reduced errors, and supported their sustainability goals.

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Take a Self-Guided Tour

Discover how Upshop’s Waste 360 solution helps stores cut waste with smarter demand-based stocking, easy expiry tracking, and better markdowns. Learn how it gives your teams the tools to reduce waste and reach sustainability goals.