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Saving Food from Waste or Advance Selling? An Empirical Analysis of Too Good To Go Offering in Rome
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Advances in Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Insights into Production, Processing, and Consumption Perspectives
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20 August 2022
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23 August 2022
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Food waste is one of the greatest challenge to sustainability in developed and developing countries. In the former, food waste is concentrated in the final part of the chain. Too Good To Go is a digital platform aimed to prevent food waste, where consumers can buy magic boxes from different outlets containing food products that are approaching their end-of-life. However, the mechanism of the platform enable the outlets to publish their offering much in advance of the pick-up time, raising the question whether the food sold on the platform is effectively a leftover or a planned production. Our empirical study gathers data from over 1200 outlets in Rome on the Too Good To Go platform.
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Subject: Business, Economics and Management - Econometrics and Statistics
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