Flashfood App Offers Over 50% Off Groceries
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Canadians can say goodbye to food waste and hello to savings with the Flashfood App.
Get 50% off on near-expired food at various Loblaws locations nationwide.
Use the referral code MOCD28ZN4 and earn a $3 or sometimes $5 credit.
Flashfood is a fun way to reduce food waste and save up to 50% on groceries at stores near you. Here’s my personal Flashfood referral code: MOCD28ZN4. If your first purchase is over $7, you’ll get $5 off! Use the code when you sign up or on the Rewards tab. Download the app today! https://flashfood.onelink.me/yAxk/referral
They seem to have changed the referral credit, but at the time of writing this, it was $5.
Based out of Toronto, the Flashfood App is the newest way Canadians save money on groceries.
Today, you’ll learn about the most excellent food savings app in Canada that many Canadians are signing up for.
Plus, I will share the secret to getting $3/$5 worth of FREE stuff today.
Flashfood Helps Fight Food Waste With Grocery Savings
If you are from Michigan or Wisconsin, you may want to keep reading because you’re included, too!
Would you buy near-expired food products for 50% off for grocery savings and help conquer food waste?
If you just answered YES, then the Flashfood app is definitely for you.
Sign Up For The Flashfood App To Get a $5 Credit.
Every person who signs up gets a $3 credit, a freebie offered by Flashfood for new app customers.
Use my referral code, MOCD28ZN4, to get the $5 credit, and your first purchase must be over $15.
From the start, I will tell you that if you buy reduced products, sign up for the Flashfood app now.
A user can only be a referee once; the $15 minimum must be made in a single transaction.
Food Going To Landfill
DID YOU KNOW?
160 000 000 000 pounds of food in North America end up in the landfill
The Problem – Food Waste in landfills turns to methane gas
The Diversion – Retailers stock based on need and working with agencies like the food bank.
The Solution – Keep as much food out of the landfill as possible by offering it at 50% off to consumers when it expires.
My wife and I always shop for the reduced rack at the grocery store.
It doesn’t stop there.
We scour the grocery store for reduced stickers, particularly 50% off stickers, at our local President’s Choice Loblaws stores, such as Zehrs and RCSS.
Those grocery savings are enormous for our monthly budget, which has helped keep it so low over the years.
Related: How much should my grocery budget be?
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It has also allowed us to eat foods we typically wouldn’t purchase because the prices are far too high for our budget.
This also ties in with the solution of the Flashfood App, which allows consumers a wider variety of food choices.
By selling this food at 50% off the retail price through Flashfood, grocers are able to recover costs (i.e.: reduce shrink), and significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
Consumers are able to take advantage of healthier food items like produce, meat and prepared meals that they would ordinarily deem too expensive. – Flashfood and Food Waste in Canada
Earning PC Points With Flashfood
Can you earn PC Optimum Points On Your Flashfood App online order?
You cannot earn P.C. Optimum Points, which may be a shortcoming; however, the savings are enormous.
However, under the settings tab on the app, they do as for your P.C. Loyalty card number.
They want to fill their fridge with deals you’ll want to buy.
FTP do that; they want to learn about historic purchases from your points card information.
As loyal P.C. customers, we already have an Elite MasterCard that helped us earn almost 5 million P.C. Optimum Points.
This is why we shop at grocery stores under the Loblaws umbrella.
The significant part about buying reduced food items is that we are helping to control food waste in Canada.
In return, consumers who buy these products that are about to expire save money.
Flashfood App 101
What is the Flashfood App?
This is not a tiny empire with over 24 employees on the Flashfood App team.
It’s growing and will reach various heights since costs are getting expensive for Canadians.
We want to save money, so I signed up for the Flashfood app after a C.B.B. fan asked if I had heard about it.
I had not heard about it, so I thought it was new, or I’d been living under a rock because the Flashfood App is awesome.
Until long-time C.B.B. fan Christine McLean messaged me on Facebook to tell me about it.
Here’s our conversation:
Have you tried the new Flashfood app?
No, I have not. What’s it all about?
Food that’s going to expire in a few days deeply discounted usually at a store near you.
I have Superstore.
I pick items that I want, pay for it and pick it up at the Superstore.
Oh really? Cool.
Last night they had all kinds of mixed boxes of fruits and then veggies – for $5 a box
Not sure if it available in Ontario but my nephew in Saskatchewan can use it and we are in BC.
Cool tip to keep grocery costs down.
I’m going to look. What a great way to sell stuff.
Thanks for letting me know.
You’re welcome. I’m always looking for ways to save money.
Yes, they have it in Ontario.
Cool. So, do I go in?
Oh, add to the cart.
You place the order on your Flashfood app first then Pay for it and go pick it up.
I used my debit Visa card – so the money just came out of my bank account.
Make sure you take your bags with you. It’s quick and easy to pick up your products at customer service.
When you pick up – you go to customer service and they either get the items for you or you get it from the flash food cooler and then back to customer service to verify and then you leave
Just tell them you are there for flash food.
Have your phone handy with app opened so you make sure you get everything
Brilliant, O.M.G., so happy.
Thanks again, Christine.
My first order cost me $31.74 and I saved $35.42.
The Best deal was the bag of 3 whole chickens for $8.04- I spent last night cutting up chicken and deep frying two chickens for lunches, and the excess bones are thrown in a bag for soup broth.
You can also add your P.C. Loyalty card to the Flashfood app for points.
Flashfood App Tip – Set up notifications so that you are notified when new items are posted to get the best deals quickly.
“I’m never doing a regular shopping trip again!”- Christine McLean
How to start using the Flashfood App
If you have an Android, Tablet, iPad, or iPhone, you must download the Flashfood App
Follow the referral code instructions above to get a $3 credit. Free money!
You must use my referral code, MOCD28ZN4, to get the $5 credit after you spend $15 on your first purchase.
- Set up your profile and location information in the app
- Click on the shopping carts on the map or your preferred stores below
- Browse for deals that are 50% off to see if you are interested in any of them
- Purchase what you would like at a discounted price from your phone
- Go to the grocery store and pick up your items at the Flashfood Zone
It’s so awesome, and we love this idea at CBB and 100% back them up on the concept.
You also save time purchasing grocery products online, so you’re not doing it at the store.
You can also grocery shop for other items on your shopping list and simultaneously pick up your Flashfood products.
I suggest checking the Flashfood app often, as they add new 50% off deals.
Canadian Grocery Stores That Use The Flashfood App
The grocery stores in Canada currently involved with the Flashfood App are:
- Loblaws
- Chris
- Real Canadian Superstore
- Dominion
This may expand as this concept grows across Canada since Food Waste is a massive issue for Canadians.
Flashfood App Service Fee 2024
As of May 1, 2024, the Flashfood app will apply a service fee to orders.
For example, if you spend $5.00 on the app, the service fee would be 25 cents.
If you spend $12.00 using the app, the service fee would be 60 cents.
Locations For Flashfood App
Not only is the Flashfood app debuting in Canada, but they also offer the app to Americans in Michigan and Wisconsin, although it is still a tiny entity.
I’m sure that will grow to new heights in no time.
Let’s look at the different Loblaws locations across Canada and how many Flashfood app grocery stores are available.
When you read this, the numbers may change to give you an idea of where you live.
If you don’t see your city location on the list, you can let the Flashfood app team know what city you’d like to see the app in next by filling in an online contact form.
- Alberta – 31 Locations
- British Columbia – 28 Locations
- Manitoba – 11 Locations
- New Brunswick – 19 Locations
- Newfoundland and Labrador – 11 Locations
- Nova Scotia – 28 Locations
- Ontario – 125 Locations
- P.E.I. – 4 Locations
- Quebec – 139 Locations
- Saskatchewan – 8 Locations
- Yukon- 1 Location
The United States Of America
- Michigan – 4 Locations – Meijer Stores
- Wisconsin – 3 Locations (Various location stores)
You can also sign up for new location notifications on the app by entering your email.
By doing so, the Flashfood app will send you a notification to let you know if your area has a new grocery store added to the list.
Discussion: Would you buy near-expired food products for 50% off for grocery savings and help conquer food waste?
I am in NL I am a senior and I do have an iPad and I would love to see a few deals on Flashfood that we could buy !!! We get a very few items to select from, sad since I have seen carts of food ready for the dumpster. I would buy more but the few things offered is pitiful. The concept is good but you shouldn’t brag about food saved from the landfill if you don’t do more to reach those who could really used the savings!
Hi Marilyn,
I don’t own Flashfood so I have no control over how the business is run. What I do know is that many Canadians are benefiting from reduced costs on foods that would end up in the bin. Even saving something is better than it going to the garbage. Each store is responsible for posting their reduced price items to the website for customers in their area. It has nothing to do with FlashFood. I’d suggest contacting the stores that are in your area and ask the manager directly since they add the products themselves to FlashFood.
Thanks for writing in and I hope you get more deals. We picked up lots of great deals the last week from Zehrs.
sadly only android 5.0 and above for the Google app- I have .4.4.2 and not ready to go get a new phone!
Linda
Oh that sucks and I don’t blame you. I did ask the owners if they were going to make it online as well but they said not at this time maybe in the future.
Thanks for letting us know Linda.
Mr.CBB
That’s kind of troubling about discriminating against people without a smart phone.
I downloaded the app, but I find it annoying that a person can’t choose categories they’re interested in and not see items there’s no interest in purchasing. Specifically, I’m a vegetarian and I will never buy meat products, but there they are!
Most memorable 50% off I got at Save On Foods many years ago and it was a key lime pie.
Hi Cheryl,
The app is new and those who have tablets and ipads can also use the app. I found out this evening from speaking with flash foods. Right now they don’t have the platform for this on a desktop but hope in the future to. If you have an optimum card you can add it to the app so they customize based on what you buy in their stores just as they do for the PC Optimum App. I hope that helps.
Sadly this app is not available to people without a smart phone. Many struggling people do not have this, nor many seniors, as I am. I wrote the company about this bit of discrimination but their reply was almost “too bad!” … no help at all. Yes I would buy this food, but must pass these bargains when shopping, as I cannot afford the cost and plans of a smart phone. I carry a flip phone on a $10 plan for emergencies. So this wonderful idea is only available to those who can afford smart phones. I think it is wrong, but the company does not seem to care.
ann so very frustrating.
Hi Ann,
You’re right that is a bit of a pit-fall and might segregate the people who want to use the app for the discounts. I just asked their team if they plan on implementing a web platform for users without a phone. I will update you once I hear back from them. My in-laws would miss the savings as well as they had a flipphone too.
Thanks very much for your caring about this problem, I’m sure there are lots of people (seniors esp) out there using flip phones that would love to buy bargain food. I appreciate your interest in writing their team and hope they do reply! ann lee s
Here is their response and I will update my post to add ipads and tablets.
“For now, we don’t have the resources of building a platform for non smartphone users but perhaps in the future we’ll revisit this! We’re also available on iPads and tablets for those who have either. Since the stores have wifi they can easily connect there as well!”