This research builds a conceptual framework to analyze the links between promotions and food waste, based on the results of a qualitative study on 20 French consumers. More precisely, we study how promotions may increase food waste, but also how this wastage may change consumer’s perception of...

This study aims at analyzing the role of wastage as a possible consequence of promotional offers and as a cause of skepticism towards these offers. After having presented a literature review of the effect of promotions on purchase, consumption, and non-consumption of food products by the...