2.3.4. Waste Data from the Stores

Data of in-store food waste were provided by each store for one year, from 1 December 2018 to 30 November 2019, in the form of records from the databases maintained by the stores. The staff registered all items that were unsaleable and were removed from the FV department. This procedure has been used for many years by the stores for internal follow-up and was performed independently of this study. In waste data, different types of information were registered such as what type of fruit or vegetable, information on whether it was sold in bulk, packaged or in pieces, the weight or amount, and the purchase price. In total, for all three stores, data from 43,137 waste registrations were analysed for this study.
