讲座题目:Too Good to Go: Combating Food Waste with Surprise Clearance(好到不能错过:如何通过盲盒清仓减少食物浪费)
主讲人:Man Yu(于漫) 香港科技大学 教授
时间:2024年11月04日10:00
地点:学院229
主办单位:bwin必赢登录入口官网管理科学与工程系
邀请人:陈植元
内容摘要:
This paper studies surprise clearance as an innovative business model to increase store profit and reduce food waste. A store holding surprise clearance sells “surprise bags” composed of surplus food that would otherwise become waste. At the time of ordering, consumers are uncertain about the quantity of food items included in a surprise bag. We model surprise clearance and compare it with both no clearance and transparent clearance, which sets a transparent unit clearance price based on the amount of surplus food after regular sales. We find that surprise clearance achieves the highest store profit and induces the most store production among the three selling schemes. While both clearance schemes have the ability to eliminate store waste, the store effectively does so under surprise clearance but deliberately does not under transparent clearance. In fact, transparent clearance may generate even more store waste than no clearance. Further, both clearance schemes exacerbate the problem of consumer waste compared to no clearance, and despite zero store waste, surprise clearance generates the most consumer waste among the three schemes. If clearance sales target a consumer segment with a sufficiently low valuation of consumption, both clearance schemes reduce total food waste and surprise clearance represents a win-win solution that maximizes store profit and minimizes total waste among the three schemes. However, there are circumstances under which both clearance schemes fail to reduce total waste, and surprise clearance may end up with the most total waste among the three schemes.
本文研究了盲盒清仓作为一种创新的商业模式,旨在增加商店利润并减少食物浪费。进行盲盒清仓的商店出售由本应成为废物的剩余食物组成的“盲盒袋”。在下单时,消费者无法确定盲盒中包含的具体食品数量。我们将盲盒清仓与无清仓、透明清仓(根据常规销售后剩余食物的数量设定透明的单位清仓价格)进行了比较。研究发现,盲盒清仓能为商店带来最高的利润,并促使商店生产更多的商品。虽然两种清仓方式都能消除商店的食物浪费,但在盲盒清仓的模式下,商店能有效地消除浪费,而在透明清仓中,商店则故意不消除浪费。实际上,透明清仓可能比不清仓产生更多的食物浪费。此外,与无清仓相比,盲盒清仓和透明清仓都加剧了消费者浪费问题,并且尽管商店零浪费,盲盒清仓导致的消费者浪费在三种方案中最多。如果清仓销售的目标群体是对消费价值评估较低的消费者,那么两种清仓方案都能减少总的食物浪费,而盲盒清仓是在三种方案中最大化商店利润并最小化总浪费的双赢解决方案。然而,在某些情况下,两种清仓方式都无法减少总浪费,而盲盒清仓最终可能在三种方案中产生最多的总浪费。
主讲人简介:
于漫教授现为香港科技大学商学院资讯系统、商业统计及营运管理系(ISOM)教授。她获得密歇根大学罗斯商学院的工商管理博士学位,并获得了清华大学经济管理学院的管理科学学士和硕士学位。研究兴趣包括定价和收益管理与消费者行为的建模,运营和营销的交叉领域,以及供应链管理。目前担任UTD24期刊Production and Operations Management的资深编辑和Decision Sciences的副编辑。