We provide causal evidence on how date marking policies influence consumers' valuation of perishable food products … through three consecutive research steps. In a preparatory in-store survey (n = 100), we identify perishable food items that … price list (MPL) experiment (n = 200) then tests consumers' valuation of perishable food of varying shelf-life (expiry date …

The aim of this report is to map food waste in the retail and wholesale sector in Germany for the year 2019 collected … total retail trade in Germany of about 35 %4. Markdowns include both food waste and redistributed food, such as food … this report, the entire food retail is reported for the first time in Germany (see chapter 4). Food waste in the entire …

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 …

We study the consumer response to the extension of a perishable food item’s shelf life. We develop a theoretical model … prediction of both changes in the purchase and waste of the food item under an extended shelf life. We empirically test the model …

Reducing food waste in households can be accomplished by changing several types of behavior (e.g., meal planning, food … shopping, food storage, food preparation, leftover management) and by leveraging several sources of consumer motivation … about the patterns of consumers in the United States when it comes to household food waste attitudes and behaviors. We …

Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household …-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …

drivers of wasted food in lower-middle income American families. These positive intentions provide an improved understanding … of household food waste, a problem with high environmental impact and moral implications. Based on empirical data …-emotions and showing affection for kids – can promote greater food waste. Other antecedents identified include multiplicity of …