A walk-in grocery store in Rīga
Same shop, -30% off.
Every week, Latvian shops and producers pull tonnes of good food off sale — wrong shape, old label, short date. An AI sorts that surplus overnight; we put it on real shelves, in a real shop, cheap.
This is Rescue
A second chance for food. A fresh start for Latvia.
An anti-waste supermarket with a simple idea: good food belongs on your table. Rescue brings the surplus-supermarket concept to Latvia, starting in Rīga.
Rejected
by supermarkets & producers — wrong shape, old label, short date
How?
We recover food that's unsold, short-dated, or slightly off-spec — never spoiled — so we get it cheap and pass that straight on to you.
On our shelves
a real, walk-in shop in Rīga — same day, cheap
Case files
Rejected for:
Six real lots on the shelf this week. None of it is off. All of it was refused.
Exhibit A · the two-legged carrot
* In the EU, fresh produce is graded “Extra”, “Class I” or “Class II” against Regulation (EU) 543/2011 — size, colour and “freedom from abnormal curvature”. Class II is perfectly edible and routinely goes unsold. Figures and lots on this page are illustrative.
How much would you save?
Assumes a 30% blended saving across the basket. Markdowns on the shelf itself run roughly 45–75%.
Hover here to see what a year of that saving buys ↓
A year of that saving, spent on something else
Typical Rīga 2024 prices, for illustration. The point isn’t the exact count — it’s that the money is real, and it was going in the bin.
The store
A shop you walk — not a bag you gamble on.
Move your pointer to look around · tap an aisle marker.
Shop this 3D aisle for real — add what you click, then walk in and pick it up.
Today’s shelf
Fill a basket. Pick it up.
Shelf updated this morning · collection from 12:00
Plan it for me
Give us the budget and the table. We’ll pick a set of recipes from today’s shelf that feeds it, list the dishes and the exact shopping list, and show the gap if the budget won’t stretch.
Nothing matches these filters.
The pipeline
Everyone’s surplus, sorted by machine.
Live intake · 38 stores connected · parcels move to Rescue as each reject list updates.
Supermarkets already file a rejected-goods list every day — for audit, for write-off, for insurance. We plug into those feeds. A model reads every line, scores how sellable it is against our own health-and-hygiene rules, and routes it. People spot-check; the machine does the first pass on all of it.
Concept figures. “Sky&More” and “Your Neighbour Grocery” stand in for the long tail of small chains and corner shops that a manual buyer could never work through.
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Ingest
We read each partner’s daily reject list straight from their system: product, quantity, stated reason, batch, best-before, and the cold-storage temperature log.
Live feeds: 38
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AI triage
A model scores every line for sellability — shelf-life left, why it was pulled, storage history, recall status — and sorts roughly 1,900 lines a day in minutes.
Avg score: 7.4 / 10
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Our standards
Then the hard rules: cold chain never broken, a safe date margin, packaging intact, allergens labelled, nothing under recall.
Pass rate: 71%
→ Fails go to compost, animal feed, or back to the store.
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On the shelf
What passes is priced — about a third under retail, usually more — and listed on the shop tab, most of it within the hour.
Median time in: 52 min
Come in
Miera iela 58, Rīga.
Rescue Club — the bit an app can’t do
- €5/moMembership, at the Club desk or online — cancel any time.
- 17:00Members’ first-pick hour, every day, before the rush.
- −10%Member price on everything in the Pantry aisle.
- 10→€5A stamp per €10 rescued. Ten stamps, five euros off.
Tap a circle — your real card lives at the Club desk.
Join online — it takes 20 seconds
Create your account and we'll email you the moment a big delivery lands, before it's gone.
Rescue Club member
- Hours
- Mon–Sat 10:00–20:00
Sun 11:00–17:00 - Getting there
- Tram 11 to Aleksandra Čaka iela · bike racks at the door
- Pickup
- Order online, collect from the Club desk the same day, 12:00–19:30
- Where the surplus comes from
Come hungry. Leave smug. Nothing on our shelves ever saw the inside of a bin.