Company/Organization

Shanghai DaiZou Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Case name

PACK-AGE: Explorer of “decentralized food transfer system”

Status

Inactive

Project description

For many urban food retailers, dumping large quantities of unsold edible food into the garbage is a daily closing-time routine. These unsold food items may have passed the date for optimal freshness, but they have not spoiled. However, concerned about customer complaints and company image, shopkeepers don't dare to sell food that's near the expiry date. As a result, day after day and year after year, countless billions of tons of edible food are wasted in this way.

Fortunately, in recent years, more social organizations have emerged to address this issue, using social media and internet technology to create new pathways for this industry. Pack-Age (Shanghai Daizou Network Technology Co., Ltd.) has developed its own technology platform and cleverly adopted the "blind box" trend to create a marketplace where retailers can sell off their near-expiry foods to local students at extremely friendly prices. Pack-Age's food redistribution platform solves retailers' problem of unsalable leftovers and raises their popularity and brand visibility while delighting consumers with affordable blind boxes full of surprises.

Pack-Age offers a win-win solution for both suppliers and consumers, and has not encountered any food safety disputes since its launch. The project offers an interesting, novel, and clever solution for reducing food waste.