New: AH Leftovers
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: AH Leftovers.
Products that are almost expired, going out of the assortment, or fresh products that need to be eaten today or tomorrow: through the Too Good To Go app, you can pick up these items at a significant discount from various supermarkets. Albert Heijn is working on a pilot of a new app, the AH Leftovers, which works just like Too Good To Go.
Minke blogs on her website Gierige Gerda about saving and cutting costs. She explains how this new app works. In ten branches of AH it is being tested. You can buy a bag for 5 euros with products worth €14.95 or more. A special variant is offered for vegetarians. A bag with bread and pastries is also offered for €3.95 filled with at least €11.95 worth of rolls, bread, and sweets. And all of this to reduce waste and prevent food from being thrown away.
Pay later
Gerda compares the new action of Appie with Too Good To Go. The downside of that app: you pay in advance and only see what’s in your bag in the store. It can happen that the food is something you don’t like or that there are products in it that you just don’t care for. With the Albert Heijn Leftovers, that’s different; you pay in the store.
Lucky find
The Too Good To Go app has been around for a few years. At supermarkets like Plus and Albert Heijn, but also at bakers, greengrocers, and restaurants, you can pick up meals or products cheaply that they can no longer sell the next day. In Amsterdam, it was a big hit with Too Good To Go; you had to be quick to take advantage of such a lucky find.
Ten stores
The downside of the Albert Heijn Leftovers: it is a pilot; you can only score such a cheap bag of groceries at ten stores. If those stores are not in your area, then you’re out of luck. But Gerda is optimistic: if we all download that app, Albert Heijn will surely roll it out nationwide, right? Moreover, not all branches participate in Too Good To Go.
Source: Gierige Gerda
