Tech is helping grocery stores waste less food. That’s a problem for food banks

First, the good news: Grocery stores are getting better at cutting food waste. AI tools can help better predict demand for each product, for example, and help a store reduce waste by more than a third. Other tech can help stores sell food before it expires. But there’s a catch—some food banks say that now they’re getting fewer donations. How retailers are getting better at wasting less Demand forecasting software is becoming widely used, with deep learning models that can predict how much of an…