Afresh Launches Its Biggest-Ever Product Release, Including the Launch of Its Fresh Store Suite and Expansion to a Comprehensive Fresh Platform

New fresh solutions use AI to help grocers simplify operations, cut waste, and serve shoppers better

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Afresh, the leading fresh technology company, today announced the biggest product launch in its history: the Fresh Store Suite. This collection of solutions gives grocery teams a unified system for managing the most critical fresh tasks — from inventory management and demand forecasting to ordering and production planning — across produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, and prepared foods.

The Fresh Store Suite is built on Afresh's industry-leading AI technology and introduces new solutions for Production Planning and Period Ending Inventory. With the Fresh Store Suite launch, Afresh's flagship Fresh Replenishment product has also been enhanced to deliver faster, more automated decision-making. It is now available on iOS, Android, web, mobile, and scanner devices, and can now also directly integrate with existing retail systems. Together, these solutions make up the Afresh Platform, which is designed to transform and modernize fresh operations.

Within this single platform, grocers can streamline inventory decisions, such as planning how many beef strip loins to order, how many to cut into steaks, how much to grind into packaged ground beef, and how much to prepare as pre-seasoned carne asada strips. This helps teams make the most of every pound delivered — driving profitability, reducing food waste, and raising the standard of freshness across every department.

"When we started Afresh, we had a simple but powerful belief: fresh food was the future of grocery, but it was being held back by a lack of purpose-built technology," said Matt Schwartz, CEO of Afresh. "We pioneered the world's first AI-powered solution for fresh, and in doing so, created a new industry standard. Our continued innovation with the Afresh Platform and Fresh Store Suite helps partners maximize profitability and fight food waste on a scale the industry has never seen."

Introducing the Fresh Store Suite

The Fresh Store Suite introduces new and enhanced solutions that transform how grocers manage fresh operations. Together, they provide a single source of inventory insight across departments, simplifying daily work for associates while equipping corporate teams with accurate, actionable information to optimize performance. Key components of Fresh Store Suite include:

• Fresh Replenishment: The next generation of Afresh's award-winning inventory management, demand forecasting, and ordering solution. With key enhancements to Intelligent Inventory, stores can cut time-consuming full-department item counts and order 50% faster, saving valuable time and labor. Now available on Android, iOS, mobile, and web.

• Replenishment API: A fully back-end version of Fresh Replenishment that integrates directly into a retailer's existing systems, enhancing their existing front-end system with Afresh's order intelligence — without requiring new devices.

• Production Planning: A new solution that extends Afresh's AI to in-store production operations, providing associates with precise production plans that specify what to make, when, and in what quantity. From fruit bowls to bakery items to hot bar dishes, this reduces guesswork, prevents overproduction, and ensures product availability.

• Period-Ending Inventory: This new solution streamlines the labor-intensive month-end counting process using inventory data from Fresh Replenishment. Instead of starting counts from scratch, teams simply verify Afresh's Intelligent Inventory, saving hours of overtime while improving accuracy.

Together, these solutions put AI at the center of the most complex and labor-intensive decisions in fresh, allowing associates to focus on maintaining high-quality displays and delivering excellent customer service.

The Afresh Platform: Powering the Future of Fresh

The Afresh Platform unifies all fresh solutions in a flexible, scalable system designed to grow with retailers. Its AI engine — developed over eight years of innovation and with more than seven patents pending — provides a single source of truth that powers smarter decisions across the store. Key capabilities of the Afresh Platform include:

• Full-Perimeter Fresh Coverage: Live across the fresh perimeter: produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, and prepared foods. Each solution is purpose-built to support a range of simple bulk to complex items, like random-weight meats and hot bar items, which traditional systems often overlook.
• Flexible Deployment: Now available on iOS, Android, web, and mobile devices, in addition to powerful back-end integrations, like the new Replenishment API, that embed Afresh intelligence directly into grocers' existing systems.
• Cross-Department AI Optimization: Connects data across fresh departments to intelligently coordinate decisions — from daily ordering and production to distribution — ensuring inventory is in the right place at the right time while improving labor efficiency.

Today, Afresh solutions are in use across more than 10,000 store departments at leading grocers including Albertsons, Meijer, Fresh Thyme, Brookshire's, and Stater Bros. Together with its partners, Afresh has prevented over 100 million pounds of food waste while driving business results such as 25% shrink reduction, 3% sales uplift, 7% higher inventory turns, and a 94% adoption rate among store teams.

About Afresh Technologies:
Afresh is the world's leading Fresh Technology company, creating comprehensive and intelligent solutions that revolutionize the fresh food supply chain. Afresh is changing the game by helping grocers make smarter, fresher decisions and improving grocers' bottom lines while reducing food waste on the retail floor. Founded in 2017 with the mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all, Afresh is proudly serving national and regional grocery brands across the US. Today, Afresh has announced partnerships with grocers in over 10,000 store departments and 40 states, including Albertsons, Meijer, Fresh Thyme, Brookshire's Grocery Company, and Smart & Final. Learn more at www.afresh.com.

Press Contact:
Mollie Starr for Afresh
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