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The Squander Sequence: Understanding Food Waste at Each Stage of the Consumer Decision-Making Process
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Food waste presents a complex global problem that involves multiple actors and institutions within the aggregate food marketing system. Food waste occurs across food production and distribution, as well as at the hands of the consumer. In this research, the authors focus on waste that occurs across what is termed the “squander sequence,” which describes waste that occurs from consumer behaviors at the preacquisition, acquisition, consumption, and disposition stages. The authors set forth a behavioral theory–based agenda to explain food waste in the squander sequence with the ultimate goals of encouraging future research to uncover the psychological underpinnings of consumer-level food waste and of deriving transformative consumer solutions to this substantive issue.
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“Recently, two systematic reviews (Block et al., 2016;Porpino, 2016) have highlighted the importance of having a better understanding of how food-related behavioral factors contribute to household food waste.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Block, L. G., Keller, P. A., Vallen, B., Williamson, S., Birau, M. M., Grinstein, A., Haws, K. L., LaBarge, M. C., Lamberton, C., Moore, E. S., Moscato, E. M., Reczek, R. W., & Tangari, A. H.
- Affiliations
- Baruch College (US)
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Villanova University (US)
- Saint Joseph's University (US)
- Grenoble Ecole de Management (FR)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Queen's University (CA)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Wayne State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Block, Lauren G.
- Keller, Punam A.
- Vallen, Beth
- Williamson, Sara
- Birau, Mia M.
- Grinstein, Amir
- Haws, Kelly L.
- LaBarge, Monica C.
- Lamberton, Cait
- Moore, Elizabeth S.
- Moscato, Emily M.
- Reczek, Rebecca Walker
- Tangari, Andrea Heintz
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-09
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 292-304
- ISSN
- 0743-9156 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-7207
- OpenAlex
- W2488723297
- Semantic Scholar
- e6f608aaac3534d3a25cc0b012009328cd40a96c
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 7
- FWCI
- 23.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Consumer behavior in food and health
- Keywords
- food waste, purchase decision, consumer behavior, food procurement, dietary intake, food disposal, food marketing system, behavioral theory
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