A-Plus (A+) Food Retail Challenges in Minimizing Fruits and Vegetables Wastage

Abstract

Food and grocery contributes to a major part of Indian online and offline retail. Food, particularly fruits and vegetables face huge post-harvest losses in the country which is high due to lack of infrastructure like cold storage, cold chain, unscientific handling right from farm till these reach the consumers along with many other factors. The case pertains to A-Plus (A+) Food Retail which is facing problems related to wastage of fruits and vegetables (F&V) in stores and is looking to overcome this challenge. The company is witnessing irregular patterns (mostly high) in wastage of F&V in different stores in its retail chain which affects the total sales and profit margins of the company despite the fact that the system is highly organized and equipped with latest technology throughout its supply chain. The employees attached with the stores seem to be extremely worried about the same but are struggling to arrive at some suitable solution. For this, the company has engaged a person and expects him to come out with all the possible factors resulting in irregular F&V wastage and the corrective measures thereon.