food waste [General]
2014 Jul 21
I smell marketing genius here.
Cute veggies ... save the planet ... no waste ... and we are talking about it here (and they are in France) ... Brilliant ... The Mad Men really hit on a good one. !
It costs big retailers money to have more products . They talk in SKU's.
More SKU's mean more people handling, buying, stalking bins, paying invoices etc.
And they take up precious square footage (space) in the store, that they will want a return on.
I don't think the farmers give those anthropomorphic veggies away.
And they are decreasing price by 30% ?
Do the math.
Cute veggies ... save the planet ... no waste ... and we are talking about it here (and they are in France) ... Brilliant ... The Mad Men really hit on a good one. !
It costs big retailers money to have more products . They talk in SKU's.
More SKU's mean more people handling, buying, stalking bins, paying invoices etc.
And they take up precious square footage (space) in the store, that they will want a return on.
I don't think the farmers give those anthropomorphic veggies away.
And they are decreasing price by 30% ?
Do the math.
2014 Jul 21
They probably get used as animal feed normally . . .
It's marketing, but yes, there is a lot of waste in the food supply chain.
I shopped for vegetables on farms in France and there were plenty of misshapen ones. This is straight from the fields though. And no middleman.
In France there is agricultural overproduction anyway . . . sometimes farmers are paid not to grow food, or it's bought by the government then destroyed. The government subsidizes agriculture, as many countries do.
It's marketing, but yes, there is a lot of waste in the food supply chain.
I shopped for vegetables on farms in France and there were plenty of misshapen ones. This is straight from the fields though. And no middleman.
In France there is agricultural overproduction anyway . . . sometimes farmers are paid not to grow food, or it's bought by the government then destroyed. The government subsidizes agriculture, as many countries do.
Rizak
Brilliantly.