GÜL Card, which offers wholesale prices to restaurants, cafés, hotels, grocers and offices, has reached 2,800 businesses. Our wholesale section is adding 1,200 new case products and a phone ordering line.
Our four-month renovation is complete. Aisles are wider, the produce and bakery sections have moved to the entrance and parking has grown to 600 cars. The store did not close for a single day.
Market stalls fill with colour in October and November. Tips for choosing and storing seasonal vegetables, from leeks and pumpkin to spinach and cauliflower.
Most of our fresh produce comes from growers within 150 km of our store. Our programme now includes 180 producers, and on the first Saturday of every month we hold a “Producer Day”.
With our new 1,500 m² cold store, fresh produce now reaches the shelf within 24 hours of harvest. And our butcher’s counter has started offering dry-aged beef.
Every day we share food that can no longer be sold but is still safe to eat with the local food bank. In three years our waste fell by 62 per cent and 410 tonnes of food reached people in need.
The installed capacity of the solar panels on our roof has reached 1.2 MW. Around 40 per cent of our store’s annual electricity now comes from the sun.