Food waste app Karma launches smart fridge with Electrolux
Swedish food waste app Karma has linked with Electrolux to test a smart refrigerator for grocery stores.
The “beta” version, launched on Tuesday 6 November, enables Karma users to buy reduced-price surplus chilled goods stored in a connected refrigerator at the entrance to the ICA Kvantum Liljeholmen store in Stockholm until the end of the year.
Users unlock the connected refrigerator, which is equipped with a “smart” lock, by using a QR code through the app.
Customers are required to show food purchased to the store staff to prove they are not taking extra items from the refrigerator, and have collected their own ordered surplus food items.
Karma, which launched in London in February this year, works by businesses uploading details of their surplus food to the app and consumers placing an order and paying for the food through the app before collecting it at a specified time.



