Starting in Beirut and along the northern coast
Half the price. None of the waste.
Shops around Beirut and up the coast put what they have not sold by closing into a Loqma bag. Reserve it on Loqma, walk in before the shutter comes down, and pay at the counter in cash.
The app is free, and you will always pay the shop directly, in cash.
What turns up in a Loqma bag
- MANOUSHE
- KAAK
- BAKLAWA
- KNEFEH
- SHAWARMA
- FATTEH
- SAJ
- MEZZE
- PRODUCE
- LABNEH
- MAAMOUL
- SFIHA
Why Loqma
Good food, and a shorter walk to it
One app, one bag, one shop on your own street. This is what you get out of it.
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At least half off, every single bag
A Loqma bag never costs more than half of what the same food was worth at the till an hour earlier. Same shop, same day, same food.
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Your street, not a warehouse
The bakery you pass every morning. The patisserie on the corner. You collect it yourself, from people who are already your neighbours.
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Nothing good gets thrown out
What has not sold by closing is not rubbish yet. It is dinner, as long as somebody comes for it in the next couple of hours.
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Shops you have walked past for years
Half the pleasure is finding them. Loqma puts a name, a window and a price on the places you never had a reason to walk into.
How it works
Four steps, about two minutes
No card, no delivery, no subscription. You reserve, you walk over, you pay the shop.
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Find bags near you
Open Loqma and see which shops around you still have Loqma bags today, what is in them, and when you can pick one up.
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Reserve it on Loqma
One tap holds the bag in your name. You get the address, the pickup window and a code to show at the counter.
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Collect it and pay cash
Turn up inside the pickup window and pay the shop at the counter, in cash. Loqma never takes your card and never touches your money.
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Eat it. Nothing wasted.
You walk out with a full bag for a fraction of the price, and the shop closes with an empty shelf instead of a full bin.
Payment is cash at the shop.
Surplus is stock you already paid for
Bakeries, patisseries, groceries, cafés and kitchens can use Loqma to sell what is left instead of binning it at closing. The customer pays you in cash at your counter and Loqma takes no commission — you pay a monthly fee for each branch, invoiced once a month. Owe more than $50 on an invoice older than 30 days and new listings pause until it is settled.
- Bakeries and patisseries
Sell it, do not bin it
Whatever is left at closing goes out as a Loqma bag at a price you set yourself. Money back on food you have already paid for twice over.
- Groceries and mini-markets
New faces at the counter
People come for the bag and come back for the shop. Loqma puts you in front of customers who never had a reason to walk through your door.
- Restaurants and caterers
A phone is the whole setup
No hardware, no card machine, no new till to learn. List a bag in under a minute and take cash at the counter exactly as you always have.
You set the price and the pickup window. Loqma takes no share of the bag price — what you pay is a monthly fee per branch, on one invoice a month.
Partner with LoqmaWhy it matters here
- 50%
- The most a Loqma bag can cost, set against what the same shop was charging for it earlier the same day.
- 0
- What changes hands online. The money goes to the shop, in cash, over the counter, when you collect.
- 1
- Short walk. You pick the bag up yourself, from the shop, inside the window it sets for that day.
A tray of manoushe that has not sold by nineis not rubbish. It is somebody’s dinner,and it is half an hour from the bin.
This is the whole reason Loqma exists.
Put Loqma in your pocket
Every bag near you, the pickup window and the price, in one place. Reserve in a tap and pay the shop when you get there.
Both apps are free. The shop directory stays on the web as well, and you pay the shop in cash at the counter either way.