This paper examines a grocery retailer’s management of a premade food product. The retailer’s goal is to maximize a …, we show how a mandate to donate unsold food items (as implemented in France and California) can incentivize a retailer to … increase the shelf life or cease disclosing the time at which a food item was made, which harms shoppers and reduces the …

One third of the entire food produced for our consumption is either lost or wasted at some point of the food supply … chain. The problem of food waste does not only intensify the elementary problem of food insecurity in wasting precious … nourishment - originally intended to be consumed - connected with its economic value, but the processing and disposal of food also …