Notts Hospice pilots weekly CO2 savings for each shop

Nottinghamshire Hospice has been piloting a new feature on the till’s customer facing display. When not processing a purchase the large colour display screen usually shows a screen-saver of up to six images on rotation - promoting everything from volunteering to charity events. This November their West Bridgeford store has been showing the shop’s CO2 and landfill savings - calculated on the shop’s total sales of donated goods for the past week.

Research shows that buying second-hand reduces consumption of new goods and avoids significant CO2 emissions exacerbated by the rise of fast fashion. Eproductive’s EPOS system allows charity’s to calculate these savings by using donated goods sales from the till. For more detail see this page on our website.

Paula Watkins, Retail Operations Manager at the hospice had this to say:

“Focusing on CO2 and landfill savings for individual shops brings the ‘buy second-hand’ message closer to home for both customers and staff. The feedback has been very positive and we plan to roll out this free new feature over the coming months”