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Greggs saves more than 1,000,000 bags of food from going to waste with Too Good To Go
Here at Greggs, we know how important it is to prevent food from going to waste.
That’s why as part of our Greggs Pledge commitments, we promised to create 25% less food waste by 2025 compared to 2018. And we also vowed to work towards donating 100% of surplus food to those in need.
We've already made great progress towards these goals, by reducing manufacturing waste by 31% in proportion to sales during 2021. Throughout the year, 28% of unsold food was redistributed (up from 12% in 2018), with over 1,000 tonnes of food donated to our charity partners and a further 880 tonnes passed on to our Greggs Outlet stores.
We are delighted to have rescued over one million bags of food from going to waste through our partnership with Too Good To Go.Gillian Long, Retail Operations Director
We've already made great progress towards these goals, by reducing manufacturing waste by 31% in proportion to sales during 2021. Throughout the year, 28% of unsold food was redistributed (up from 12% in 2018), with over 1,000 tonnes of food donated to our charity partners and a further 880 tonnes passed on to our Greggs Outlet stores.
Some of this brilliant progress is thanks to our partnership with Too Good To Go, which first launched in 2021. Too Good To Go is the world’s largest surplus food app, and they help us to prevent food waste by allowing customers to purchase surplus food directly from our shops.
Each day as closing time approaches, our shop colleagues make up ‘Magic Bags’ containing a selection of unsold products which are then offered on the app for a fraction of the price.
Customers can purchase these Magic Bags through the Too Good To Go app and collect them from one of our 1,200 shops across the UK which are signed up to the initiative.
In 2021, Too Good To Go helped us save around 800 tonnes of food, and by June 2022, over one million Magic Bags were purchased from Greggs through the app. This means that as of June, the partnership helped save the equivalent CO2e that it takes to power 1,641 flights, or to produce around 6,000,000 Greggs Sausage Rolls.
Gillian Long, Retail Operations Director at Greggs said: “We are delighted to have rescued over one million bags of food from going to waste through our partnership with Too Good To Go.
“Whilst we do everything that we can to redistribute surplus food to those in need, this partnership really helps to ensure that we keep as much food as possible from going to waste and continue delivering on our food waste commitments.”