Skip to content

About Freshto

Built by people who have spent their careers in retail operations

Freshto is a Polish software company founded by the team behind C4R (Consulting for Retail), a retail consulting practice. We built Freshto because every chain we worked with had the same gap: expiry control ran on paper, chat and memory, and no ERP covered it.

Where we come from

C4R advises grocery and FMCG chains on store operations, assortment and category management. In project after project the same picture came up: expiry dates were checked by walking every shelf, write-offs were accepted as a cost of doing business, and the head office could not see what happened on the floor.

Freshto is our answer: a focused product that gives every store a short morning list, applies markdown rules the chain sets, and shows the result in one dashboard. We ran a two-store pilot in a Ukrainian grocery chain in November 2024 and published the method and the numbers. C4R acts as reseller and implementation partner.

FRESHTO Sp. z o.o. is registered in Bydgoszcz, Poland. We work with chains in Poland and the EU, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The product was supported by the Connect Poland Prize acceleration programme, co-financed by the European Union.

How we work

  • Numbers with a source

    We publish only what we measured, and we publish how we measured it.

  • Self-service first

    A store should be able to start on its own, without waiting for an onboarding team.

  • Built for the floor

    The app is designed for a cold room without signal and a busy morning, not for a demo.

  • Less waste

    Every product sold before its date instead of thrown away is good for the store and for the planet.

Where we are going

Expiry control is the foundation. On top of it we are working towards:

  • Waste and ESG metrics

    Food saved and write-offs avoided per store, as a reportable figure.

  • Donation instead of waste

    Routing products that will not sell to food banks before their date.

  • On-shelf availability

    The same morning-list discipline applied to gaps on the shelf.

  • Loss forecasting

    Predicting which products will be written off and suggesting earlier action.

Company

Legal entity
FRESHTO Sp. z o.o.
Registered office
Obrońców Bydgoszczy 1, 85-054 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Registry
KRS 0000983486 · NIP 9671457642
Origin
Founded by the C4R retail consulting team
Markets
Poland and the EU, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia
First published pilot
November 2024, 2 stores

EU co-financing

The Freshto project was supported under the Connect Poland Prize acceleration programme, co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund. The full statement is in the footer of every page.

European Funds Smart Growth, Republic of Poland, PARP, European Union European Regional Development Fund

Talk to the team

Questions about the product, pilots or partnerships: we answer personally.