An AI fix for America’s $27 billion grocery waste problem

Grocery s waste around four million tons of food in the U. S. each year - mostly fresh food, since it’s hard for managers to know exactly how many cartons of strawberries or pounds of beef to keep in stock to meet demand. Until fairly recently, most of that planning happened manually. But AI tools from the startup Afresh are helping s cut waste by as much as 25%. The company announced $34M in new funding today to expand, co-led by Just Climate and High Sage Ventures.