Park, Jae-Hyuck; Iancu, Dan; Plambeck, Erica L. - 2022
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 …