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Spoiler Alert
Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based B2B software company that helps the world's largest consumer packaged goods makers sell off excess and short-dated inventory before it ends up in a landfill. Its platform digitizes the messy, manual liquidation process - automating listings, optimizing pricing and freight, and matching surplus product to a curated network of discount retailers and food banks. Founded by MIT Sloan classmates in 2015, the company works with brands like PepsiCo, Nestle, Kraft Heinz, Campbell's, and Danone, and says it has helped divert more than 200 million pounds of food from waste.
Grocery Outlet
Grocery Outlet is an American extreme-value retailer that sells name-brand and private-label groceries at prices generally 40% to 70% below conventional supermarkets. Founded in 1946 in San Francisco, it built a flexible 'opportunistic buying' model that scoops up overstock, closeout, and out-of-spec products from suppliers and resells them through a network of locally run, independently operated stores. The treasure-hunt assortment changes constantly, and each store is run by entrepreneurial Independent Operators who split profits with the company and tailor shelves to their neighborhood.