Retail Chains Under the Food Waste Spotlight: the Case Study Of the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Retail Chains Under the Food Waste Spotlight: the Case Study Of the Czech Republic

Original language description

Retail is an intermediary between food producers and consumers and can influence other actors in the agri-food chain. The authors explored the volume of wasted food in the large food stores in the Czech Republic as well as the retail chains' strategies and barriers to reduce it. At the same time, the main reasons for food waste in Czech households were examined. Consumer-oriented retail chain activities were confronted with the reasons for household food wasting and whether a parallel could be found between certain retail and household activities was discussed. Despite the fact that the share of food waste compared to food quantity sold is rather small, the total annual volume of lost food is enormous. The retail chains indicated strategies focused on internal processes as well as toward external entities. The most frequent reason for food wasting mentioned by consumers is over-purchase. Only a negligible portion of them indicated that the reason is purchases made under pressure, such as discounts or child demands. One can consider whether consumers are really not un-pressured when shopping, or if retail marketing policies are so sophisticated that customers buy more than they need without perceiving it. Unfortunately, reducing promotions and discounts as a means of waste reduction was not mentioned by retail chain managers. For further progress, adjustments in legislation are recommended, as well as media education aimed at civic responsibility to increase consumer cooperation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

WASTE FORUM

ISSN

18040195

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

26-36

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85126543369