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Swedish food retailers promoting climate smarter food choices—Trapped between visions and reality?
Institution:1. Work Science, Business Economics, and Environmental Psychology, SLU Alnarp, AEM, P.O. Box 88, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden;2. Department of Business Administration, Kristianstad University, SE-291 88 Kristianstad, Sweden;3. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), P.O. Box 7005, SE-402 31 Gothenburg, Sweden;1. University of Orléans, VALLOREM Lab, Orléans, France;2. University of Lille 2 (Institute of Retail Marketing and Management—IMMD), The LSMRC Lab (Université de Lille-Skema Business School), Roubaix, France;1. Department of Economics, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H4;2. Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;1. Department of Marketing Fairfield University Fairfield, CT 06825, USA;2. Department of Marketing and Finance Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA
Abstract:Food retailers are important actors in the development of a more environmentally sustainable food system. They are powerful in their procurement role and have the potential to promote and encourage consumers to buy climate smarter food. While food retailers have developed environmental visions, policies and goals, a major question is to what extent these commitments translate into action in the products sourced and promoted. This paper aims to explore the ways and extent to which food retailers assist consumers to make climate smarter food choices, more specific to reduce their meat consumption, and to identify potential and perceived difficulties towards doing this. The empirical data is based on interviews with 17 Swedish food retail representatives. The findings indicate that food retailers address climate change in their environmental policy statements and have environmental targets for retail operations, such as energy and transport efficiency and recycling of waste. Moreover, retailers promote and encourage consumers to buy organic, local, and seasonal food and to minimize food waste. No initiatives are taken to help consumers reduce their meat consumption. Yet, there is a growing consensus among scientists that meat production is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Food retailers seem reluctant to guide consumers to climate smarter food choices if it means reducing the meat range or the promotion of meat. To broaden the range of high quality and more expensive meat is seen as a more feasible option. The meat category is perceived as important to attract new and keep loyal customers.
Keywords:Swedish food retailing  Environmental issues  Climate smarter food choices  Sustainable food consumption  Meat category  Promotion
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