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Introduction

In: Retail Analytics

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  • Anna-Lena Sachs

    (University of Cologne)

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Recent studies on food losses have caught attention to the large amounts of food discarded in industrialized countries due to consumer behavior and lack of supply chain coordination which leads to expired excess inventories (Gustavsson et al. 2011). A study by the United States Department of Agriculture found that 11.4 % fresh fruit, 9.7 % fresh vegetables, and 4.5 % fresh meat and seafood are wasted annually (Buzby et al. 2009). In Germany, 11 million tons of food are wasted per year (Kranert et al. 2012). The large amount of discarded food not only represents a waste of natural resources but causes also a monetary loss to consumers and retailers.

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  • Anna-Lena Sachs, 2015. "Introduction," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Retail Analytics, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 1-4, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-319-13305-8_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13305-8_1
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