stablishing innovative fulfillment options for online orders has become a key challenge for bricks-and-mortar retailers. A mere focus on store sales is no longer affordable due to the competition by pure online players. Retailers are continuously developing new approaches for online order...

Research on food waste has attracted particular interest in recent years. This development is relevant not only to reach the aim of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to halve food waste by 2030 but also to tackle associated problems such as the wastage of other...

Public holiday weeks cause specific challenges in grocery retailing as sales increase while working days for logistics processes are reduced. This paper analyzes the operational planning challenges and solutions for demand planning and disposition as well as for warehouse and transportation...