<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's the world's largest marketplace of its kind and now the service is officially launching in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/queensland" rel="" target="" title="Queensland"><span>Queensland</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Too Good to Go helps keep businesses from throwing out unsold items at the end of the day by allowing customers to pick up leftover products for a fraction of the price, also helping consumers' budgets.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The app has now arrived in the Sunshine State after proving popular interstate, with 600,000 Australian users already.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/fears-australian-man-fighting-in-ukraine/1a92af15-27db-4452-b5b2-a87886f8df68"><strong><span>Australian fighting Russia for Ukraine's foreign legion feared dead</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We connect stores with consumers where we pick up surplus food that hasn't been sold that day," Joost Rietveld from Too Good To Go said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Typically you pay around let's say $10 for a 'surprise bag' and then what you get is usually around $30 of value."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Tessa Boehm signed up her Fortitude Valley juice bar, Pressi, two weeks ago.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/too-good-to-go-australia-money-saving-app-launches-in-queensland/a883570c-794f-49e2-b058-869182e63903" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The minimal wastage of food is what's really attractive," she said, adding, "everything's made with so much love".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Boehm's already blown away by the popularity of her "surprise bags", which go on sale when the store's closing time nears.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"[There's] around $21 value and the customers get it for about $7," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Boehm is already seeing repeat customers from the app.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"For store owners, they're not just seeing recovery of the costs, they're also seeing new faces come into their store," Rietveld said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While the main aim is to keep perfectly good food from going in the bin, there's also the potential for customers to take savings even further - for breakfast, school lunch boxes or even family dinners.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's actually exactly the same quality as the product that you would have bought five minutes before as a normal paying customer," Rietveld said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Pick up a 'surprise bag' with a lot of bread and put it into the freezer [and] you're really impacting your cost budget for that category."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More than 100 Queensland stores have already gone live on the app, with more signing up every week. The app is free to download.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Best advice is to reserve your surprise bag early in the day to ensure you don't miss out.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In these day and ages everything is a little bit higher in price and if you can catch a bargain anywhere it's nice to do that," customer Crystal French told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>:</span></em></strong><span> </span><em><strong><span>Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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