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Do discounted food products end up in the bin? An investigation into the link between deal‐prone shopping behaviour and quantities of household food waste

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Giordano, Claudia, Alboni, Fabrizio, Cicatiello, Clara, Falasconi, Luca·2019·International Journal of Consumer Studies

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Household food waste is considered to be the largest share of food waste along the food supply chain. Given that its recoverability is also more challenging compared to food waste in other stages of the chain, most studies on household food waste adopt a pre‐emptive approach by aiming to identify and address consumer beliefs, attitudes and actions that are linked to food waste. In scientific literature, household food waste has often been studied in relation to the habit of purchasing discounted food products (DFP). However, findings have been contradictory. Specifically, while some authors found that deal‐prone consumers are usually of lower income and therefore display a wiser and more attentive attitude towards grocery shopping, other authors reported that the purchase of discounted products was usually linked to compulsive shopping, hence resulting in higher food waste quantities at home. Due to these discrepant findings, a definitive answer on the impact of DFP on household food waste does not currently exist in the literature. This paper analyses the correlation between the purchase of DFP and weekly household food waste quantities. To do so, we examine (a) the results of a food waste diary experiment carried out on a representative sample of 385 households in Italy in February 2017, and (b) the results of a 23‐items Computer Assisted Web Interview survey administered to the same householders, in which shopping habits were investigated. Results revealed no evidence of either a positive or negative relationship between the purchase of DFP and household food waste quantities. Frequency of grocery shopping was the only variable found to have a significant impact on household food waste quantities.

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Authors
Giordano, C., Alboni, F., Cicatiello, C., & Falasconi, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Bologna (IT)
  • Università degli Studi della Tuscia (IT)
Corresponding author
Giordano, Claudia
Venue
International Journal of Consumer Studies
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2018-12-25
Volume
43
Issue
2
Pages
199-209
ISSN
  • 1470-6423 (ISSN-L)
  • 1470-6431
OpenAlex
W2901913721
Cited by
81
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6
FWCI
6.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • International Journal of Consumer Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • UnitusOpen (Tuscia University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Ministry of Environment, Land and sea of Italy
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
Keywords
household food waste, compulsive buying, consumer purchasing behaviour, food waste prevention

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