Carrefour starts selling boxless eggs under “zero waste challenge”

01 / 10 / 2021

By Marwa Nassar - -

Carrefour started selling eggs without boxes to cut food waste under “zero waste challenge”. It is hoping to save 3.5 million eggs annually going forward.

If any of the eggs inside a box are broken, the box can no longer be sold and all of the eggs have to be scrapped. So to reduce this kind of wastage, Carrefour is now selling eggs loose at all of its hypermarkets. And in the weeks ahead, this practice will be extended to all of its Market stores.

By installing “zero waste challenge” units, Carrefour is helping to tackle food wastage, maximizing its customers’ purchasing power in the process.

Carrefour is unwaveringly committed to tackling food wastage and so has installed “zero waste challenge” units into which unbroken eggs taken from boxes in which broken eggs have been found are placed.

These eggs are presented loose and are arranged according to how they have been reared to help customers choose. They can then put a box of six eggs together themselves and purchase it for only €0.50. This is an innovative anti-waste initiative as well as a way to maximize consumers’ purchasing power: high-quality eggs are on sale at prices everyone can afford.

This loose egg sales initiative has recently been tested in 30 Carrefour stores and has already helped sell 13,000 boxes of eggs in just a few weeks – eggs which otherwise would have had to be scrapped.

100% of Carrefour’s fresh eggs will come from cage-free farming by 2022:

Carrefour is also working to ensure that from December 2022, 100% of fresh eggs under its brands come from cage-free farming and reaffirms its commitment to the rest of the national brand suppliers by 2025.

In line with the above, the company is inviting its Carrefour branded and national branded producers (Granja Virgen del Rosario S.L, Produc. Avícolas El Granjero S.L, Camar Agroalimentaria, Dagu S.A, Agustín Roig S.A, Gallega Alimentación Huevos, Avicultores Malagueños S.A and Agropecuaria La Alameda S.L, among others) to join this agreement and is offering to support them with this change.

In addition, Carrefour will extend this commitment concerning the eggs used as an ingredient in its branded products from 2025, guaranteeing that they come from hens reared by free-range and/or organic farming models.

The company is also committed to the non-use of combined aviary systems by its suppliers.

Carrefour defends the importance for customers of access to sustainability and animal welfare policies.

Jorge Ybarra Loring Carrefour Spain’s merchandise director, said: “At Carrefour we are committed to animal welfare, which is why we are proud to make this commitment public for our customers, as part of our CSR policy”.