# App helps supermarkets donate surplus food to charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/03/10/app-helps-supermarkets-donate-surplus-food-charities/
- Published: 2016-03-10T09:22:24+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**An app that helps food retailers donate their surplus food to charity is being
rolled out in Tesco stores across the UK.**

[TAAP](http://ontaap.com/)’s Food Surplus Application is available to all food retailers
and was introduced into a number of Tesco stores at Christmas 2015 where it has 
been integrated with FareShare FoodCloud, which matches charities and community 
groups with a suitable store and tells them when there is surplus food to collect.
It is now being rolled out to larger Tesco stores with the aim of being in over 
1000 stores by year-end.

The app can be integrated with the user’s own product, pricing and waste services
data, and uses barcode scanners on mobile devices to scan existing product data.
At the point of scanning, the retail user indicates if the item can be donated, 
or is excluded.

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Donations are then posted onto the system and once accepted by FoodCloud for distribution,
the Food Surplus Application builds virtual baskets into which the stores scan each
product to record a complete audit trail of which items have been donated and to
whom, including weight, quantity, and price. This data is passed back to FoodCloud,
enabling the retailer to mark the product as ‘waste.’

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