Clerk’s Cart

Clerk’s Cart proposes a food checkout system that integrates into the existing inventory systems of a grocery store and provides each grocery store worker with a free food allowance by utilizing soon-to-be-expired food that the store will not be able to sell.

Associates already spend hours on shift facing goods and taking down items that will soon expire or are otherwise damaged. These goods would typically be donated, composted, or thrown away. By diverting them to Clerk’s Cart, grocery store workers will have access to goods based on their food and nutrition needs. Employees simply log onto the app, select what foods they would like from a prepopulated list using the store’s own waste tracking system and, at the end of their shifts, collect these reserved food items and check them out, for free.