Doug Rauch is founder and president of Daily Table, a nonprofit retail store designed to bring affordable nutrition to the food insecure in US cities by recovering unsold, wholesome food from grocers, food service, growers, and manufacturers to provide ready-to-eat meals and basic groceries at prices that compete with nutritionally challenged food. Rauch was previously president of Trader Joe’s, where he helped grow the business from a small chain in California to a retail success story. Rauch is co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism, a trustee at Olin College of Engineering, on the board of overseers at WBUR, and serves on the boards of several for-profit and nonprofit companies.
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Every year, one-third of all the food produced on the planet is lost or wasted, an amount valued at about one trillion dollars. If just 25 percent of that waste could be avoid...