Flashfood Releases 2025 Impact Report: “The Future of Food Is Abundant”

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 12, 2026--

Flashfood, the leading marketplace for surplus groceries, today released its 2025 Impact Report, The Future of Food Is Abundant. The report outlines Flashfood’s vision for a more resilient food system where fresh, nutritious food is more consistently affordable, available and abundant.

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Our deeply connected global economy has led to an unstable food system, with weather, conflicts, tariffs, inflation, and politics driving the bulk of the volatility. Flashfood’s report makes the case that reducing food waste represents one of the most immediate opportunities to improve and stabilize food access. Rather than allowing $35 billion of fresh food to go to waste at grocery stores each year, Flashfood’s marketplace enables grocers to make surplus items available to shoppers at significant discounts.

"Food waste has always been considered an unavoidable cost of the grocery system. We want to make the case that it’s also one of the clearest opportunities to make that system stronger,” said Jordan Schenck, CEO of Flashfood. “When we use technology to recover surplus food, particularly the fresh food that makes up the lion's share of waste today, retailers recover value, shoppers get more affordable access to fresh groceries and communities become more resilient. That is the abundant food system we are building and we believe it will be the baseline, not the aspiration.”

In 2025, Flashfood delivered measurable impact across North America, helping shoppers save money while keeping quality food in circulation. Key highlights include:

The report also highlights early research at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that shows Flashfood is having a measurable impact on food insecurity in the communities it serves. A dissertation exploring the role of technology on the food supply chain found that, on average, one Flashfood store reduces a county-level food insecurity rate by 0.090 percentage points, translating to approximately 860 people per county — or an estimated 146,000 people across all counties where Flashfood operates.

Flashfood expanded its marketplace in 2025 through partnerships with retailers including Kroger’s Mid-Atlantic Division and Gelson’s Markets in Southern California. The company also continued investing in technology to help grocers post surplus inventory more quickly and efficiently, with plans to further expand its retail network and platform in the year ahead.

For more information and to read Flashfood’s full 2025 Impact Report, visit www.flashfood.com.

About Flashfood

Flashfood is on a mission to feed families, not landfills. The app marketplace connects shoppers with fresh produce, meat, and other groceries at discounted prices. By partnering with retailers across North America, Flashfood offers shoppers nutritious staples at affordable prices while reducing the amount of food going to landfills. To date, Flashfood has rerouted more than 180 million pounds of food from landfills while helping shoppers save more than $370 million on groceries. Flashfood is a Certified B Corporation currently partnered with more than 2,000 grocery stores across North America. For more information, visit www.flashfood.com.

Flashfood's 2025 Impact Report: The Future of Food is Abundant

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 12, 2026--

illumynt, a technology-driven leader in AI hardware lifecycle recovery and IT asset disposition (ITAD), today announced that Matt Popieniuck has joined the company as Vice President of Customer Success & Delivery, effective August 2026. He reports to CEO Jörg Herbarth.

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Popieniuck joins illumynt after 28 years at Dell Technologies, where he progressed from group leadership through senior and principal program management roles before moving into services sustainability strategy. In that most recent chapter, he worked on the question now driving illumynt's market: what happens to enterprise technology after its first deployment, and how manufacturers and their customers recover value from it responsibly.

In his new role, Matt leads the execution of illumynt’s customer programs from commercial handoff through final delivery, ensuring programs consistently meet SLAs, operational objectives, and customer expectations. He leads the company's Program Account Manager organization, co-owns new program introduction alongside illumynt's solutions team, and will build the company's enterprise program management office as illumynt scales.

"Matt spent nearly three decades inside one of the world's largest technology manufacturers, and the last several years of it on what happens to hardware at the end of its first life," said Jörg Herbarth, CEO of illumynt. "He has sat on the customer's side of this table. He knows what a program is supposed to deliver, and he knows exactly what it costs an enterprise when it doesn't. That is the perspective we want owning execution."

The appointment comes as illumynt expands its global operational footprint. The company employs more than 180 people across facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Amsterdam; Hong Kong; and St. Petersburg, Florida, and will open the Talorem Innovation Center in Columbus this fall.

"I spent most of my career building the programs that put technology into the world, and the last few years working on what happens to it afterward," said Popieniuck. "The intent was never the hard part — the execution was. illumynt has built real engineering infrastructure behind that problem instead of treating it as a logistics exercise, and that is a rare thing in this industry. I'm here to make sure every customer program delivers on what we promised."

Popieniuck holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management from Dean College.

About illumynt

illumynt is a technology-driven leader in AI hardware lifecycle recovery, providing engineering-grade testing, certification, and value recovery for retired AI infrastructure — including GPU grading, chip-level NAND recovery, and liquid-cooled hardware evaluation. illumynt's Talorem platform brings engineering rigor to an industry historically built on logistics alone.

Matthew Popieniuck, Vice President of Customer Success and Delivery.