Misfits Market

One of the best parts of building a company from the ground up is that you get to design the team of your dreams from scratch. We make it a priority to invest in talent at every stage of their careers, which means inevitably we'd celebrate our very first retirement! Cheers to Jon Mckinley, who we toasted last week for his four years of creating scalable solutions in our IT department. Thank you for letting #MisfitsMarket be a part of the final chapter in such a wonderful career. Looking for your next big move? Check out our Careers page and come find your fit with us! https://lnkd.in/eX3zHhDE

Good news travels fast! Check out this recap of another amazing Food Waste Solutions Summit organized by our friends at ReFED. They assembled the best and brightest in the industry, including our Head of Sustainability Rose Hartley, to share insights and reimagine food loss and waste reduction strategies both upstream and at the consumer level.

Upcycled Food Association members and upcycling entrepreneurs: Join us tomorrow to chat with two of Misfits Market food-saving superheroes, Jessie Kimsey and Morgan Drummond. We'd love to hear about the delicious ways you are saving food from waste, and explore partnership! #upcycledfoodmonth #upcycle #savefood

"Move Quickly and Deliberately": it's one of our core values and it's the fuel behind our food rescue strategy. So when a Chicago-based grocer recently closed its doors, we mobilized to build a partnership with an innovative distributor, Pod Foods, who helped reroute items from 15 trending snack and beverage brands to our store. Starting this week, #MisfitsMarket customers can discover 35 new favorite foods that previously had an uncertain fate—and brands can rest easy that their products found a great home. Check out the story over at Modern Retail of how Senior Category Manager Jessie Kimsey lived our core value and worked with Dan Rabens and Peter Gialantzis at Pod Foods to help fold these emerging brands into our rapidly expanding our assortment.

What a thrill it was to see the #MisfitsMarket logo on the screens at the New York Stock Exchange NYSE last month! A huge thanks to Judy Khan Shaw and the team at #NYSEFloorTalk for inviting our Founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh  to share the latest on our plan to become "the Amazon of perishables." Watch now to hear how we're leveraging our differentiated supply chain to fight food waste and fuel the rise of other D2C companies with our B2B unit, Fulfilled by Misfits.

We're celebrating two years of our private label, Odds & Ends! From humble beginnings with a handful of pantry basics, to a full line of snacks and kitchen staples, we’re constantly working to expand our offering and reduce food waste. Give our blog a skim to see how Odds & Ends has helped us move raw ingredients “up” the Wasted Food Scale—we’ve got the numbers to prove it.

A lot has changed since our first spotlight by CNBC in 2021, so we were grateful for the opportunity to share our latest chapter of growth with the viewers of “Last Call” yesterday. Check out #MisfitsMarket CEO & Founder Abhi Ramesh chatting with Brian Sullivan to hear more about how we help consumers save money by fighting food waste. (PS: don't miss what happens at the 4:00 mark that made Abhi go “Oh wow"!)

Since day one, we've designed our business to be deliberately different. Misfits Market is the only nationwide grocer that actively partners with farmers and manufacturers to save food from waste—to the tune of 500,000 pounds of food (on average) that we save from a lesser outcome each week. Our mission is to reduce food waste and make shopping for sustainable, high-quality groceries easier and more affordable for all customers. Our dedication to #StopFoodWaste has big ripple effects: it also helps us avoid wasting water and carbon emissions. In fact, we're mindful of resources at every level of our business, from our Zero Waste Initiative in our fulfillment centers to our Packaging Return Program and efficient last-mile delivery. ICYMI, check out our first-ever Impact Report (and visit our blog for a whole lotta ways you can reduce food waste at home, too).

When Imperfect Foods joined the #MisfitsMarket family, we pledged to increase our #impact together. Now on #EarthDay, we have proof of that promise: We just published Misfits Market’s first-ever Impact Report! Some of the biggest moments from 2023 are captured in this report, including the food, water, and emissions our customers helped us save, the TRUE Zero Waste Gold certification of our Clackamas, Oregon facility, the packaging we collected for recycling and reuse through our Packaging Return Program, the impact we’ve made through our private label items, and so much more. We’re proud to be deliberately different in everything we do, from sourcing to delivery—and it’s all thanks to the contributions of our amazing team. Check out this wrap up from Progressive Grocer 👇

Reimagining the food system goes way beyond our own grocery platform. Today we announced that we’re opening up our unique supply chain to Gopuff to power the on-demand delivery app's new Fresh Grocery offering. Misfits Market is supplying more than 300 items, including fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy, meat, bread and more, allowing us to rescue even more food together. This is just the start as we continue to leverage our purpose-built infrastructure to power the perishables industry. “We’ve always had, I think, this long-term view that the operational infrastructure in the supply chain that we have built, specifically around perishable products, is a core competency,” our Founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told PYMNTS. “They are something that a lot of other companies don’t have but want. … We are, in a sense, building the Amazon for perishables.” Reach out to wholesale@misfitsmarket.com to learn more! #supplychain #perishables #groceryindustry #d2c