Tesco Testing an innovative solution for a common supermarket dilemma: in-store scanners that allow shopkeepers to assess Avocado Ripes before purchase.
Available in five stores from this week, machines act like small X-rays, reading the internal state of fruit.
Customers only keep an avocado for the scanner, which then provides one of the two readings: ‘immediately ready for smashing’ or ‘is chopped into salad’.
The Dutch company named it a third of a third avocado scanner after the Dutch company invented, technology can measure ripening only in seconds, which aims to help consumers to take the right fruit.
Tesco Avocado Buyer Lisa Lawrence said: “Scanner will enable shopkeepers to choose avocado which is right for them and which is therefore help them plan their use and desired shelf life, which can cut waste.
“Smashed on sour, the avocado remains one of the most trendyst snacks at this time, receiving millions of views on social media sites for recipe ideas, so we think, for this reason, the scanner will actually be popular with shopkeepers.”
Tesco is trialing the store scanner:
Tesco said Avocados has never been more popular and in the last year it had sold about 15 million more in the last 52 weeks compared to avocado.
Supermarket giants have worked with Global Avocado Suppliers Westfallia Fruit, Shrink, Lincolnshireon the project.
Emma Hovs, commercial manager of Westfallia Fruit, said the scanner is “one of the many initiatives we have worked in the last one year”.
He said other initiatives include trialing lasard avocados that remove plastic labels from Tesco’s loose avocado lines, and roll out cardboard and paper packaging in all Tesco’s avocado pre-pack lines.
He said that this helped “save 20 million pieces of plastic in a year”.