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Nisa retailers celebrate Stop Food Waste Day with Too Good To Go milestone

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Nisa’s independent retailers are marking Stop Food Waste Day by celebrating a Surprise Bag milestone with 175,000 meals now saved since the relationship with the world’s largest surplus food app, Too Good To Go began in 2019. With over 300 stores signed up to the…

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