{"id":1573,"date":"2019-09-16T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:12:19","slug":"the-world-wastes-tons-of-food-a-grocery-happy-hour-is-one-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/the-world-wastes-tons-of-food-a-grocery-happy-hour-is-one-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Wastes Tons of Food. A Grocery \u2018Happy Hour\u2019 Is One Answer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by David Segal, New York Times<\/em>, September 8, 2019
The World Wastes Tons of Food. A Grocery \u2018Happy Hour\u2019 Is One Answer.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHappy hour\u201d at the S-market store in the working-class neighborhood of Vallila happens far from the liquor aisles and isn\u2019t exactly convivial. Nobody is here for drinks or a good time. They\u2019re looking for a steep discount on a slab of pork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food that is nearly unsellable goes on sale at every one of S-market\u2019s 900 stores in Finland, with prices that are already reduced by 30 percent slashed to 60 percent off at exactly 9 p.m. It\u2019s part of a two-year campaign to reduce food waste that company executives in this famously bibulous country decided to call \u201chappy hour\u201d in the hopes of drawing in regulars, like any decent bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About one-third of the food produced and packaged for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That equals 1.3 billion tons a year, worth nearly $680 billion. The figures represent more than just a disastrous misallocation of need and want, given that 10 percent of people in the world are chronically undernourished. All that excess food, scientists say, contributes to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the two met in a Copenhagen cafe, REMA 1000 eliminated in-store bulk discounts. As of 2008, there would be no more three hams for the price of two, or any variations on that theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt exploded in the media because it was the first time a retailer said, \u2018It\u2019s O.K. if we sell less,\u2019\u201d Mr. Jensen said.

Analysis: <\/em><\/strong>Consumers are part of the food waste problem, but we have yet to see the change from retailers and large companies to do their part, which is a big part. It’s always baffling to see companies throw their money at business practices that aren’t practical for the environment, but also economically for themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by David Segal, New York Times, September 8, 2019The World Wastes Tons of Food. A Grocery \u2018Happy Hour\u2019 Is One Answer. \u201cHappy hour\u201d at the S-market store in the working-class neighborhood of Vallila happens far from the liquor aisles and isn\u2019t exactly convivial. Nobody is here for drinks or a good time. They\u2019re looking for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}