Meal Kit Delivery services are home delivery services of pre-portioned ingredients for meals’ preparation. Meals are based on seasonal products sourced from local workers to shorten the supply chain. Rely on dedicated apps and home deliveries, meal kits aim to drastically reduce the time spent planning meals and purchasing food; moreover, since ingredients are pre-portioned in adequate quantities, the amount of food waste can be significantly minimized. Main players in the meal kit delivery market are companies such as: HelloFresh; Blue Apron; Marley Spoon; Gousto, covering 50.91% of the revenues at worldwide level. The service is mainly widespread in the United States, but also several European countries started using it. An online survey on the willingness to use meal kit delivery services is conducted to Italian inhabitants. The survey is organized in several sections: socio-economic characteristics of the respondents; habits about grocery (person in charge in the household and frequency; preference for large-scale retail trade or neighborhood shops; distance from shops and transport mode adopted; behavior in case of urgent need for specific products); personal attitudes regarding technology, online services, e-commerce, value of time, environment, food waste and food market sustainability; willingness to use a meal kit delivery service depending on type of subscription. The main aim of the study, from the logistics and transportation side, is to evaluate potential reduction in trips for grocery and if changes on food logistic chains can be generated with consequent environmental benefits in terms of pollutant emissions.
Luca, L.P., Nigro, M., Arianna, S. (2024). Willingness to Subscribe to a Meal Kit Delivery Service: A First Investigation on Its Generated Impact in Italy. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp.114-128). GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH [10.1007/978-3-031-65308-7_9].
Willingness to Subscribe to a Meal Kit Delivery Service: A First Investigation on Its Generated Impact in Italy
Nigro M.;
2024-01-01
Abstract
Meal Kit Delivery services are home delivery services of pre-portioned ingredients for meals’ preparation. Meals are based on seasonal products sourced from local workers to shorten the supply chain. Rely on dedicated apps and home deliveries, meal kits aim to drastically reduce the time spent planning meals and purchasing food; moreover, since ingredients are pre-portioned in adequate quantities, the amount of food waste can be significantly minimized. Main players in the meal kit delivery market are companies such as: HelloFresh; Blue Apron; Marley Spoon; Gousto, covering 50.91% of the revenues at worldwide level. The service is mainly widespread in the United States, but also several European countries started using it. An online survey on the willingness to use meal kit delivery services is conducted to Italian inhabitants. The survey is organized in several sections: socio-economic characteristics of the respondents; habits about grocery (person in charge in the household and frequency; preference for large-scale retail trade or neighborhood shops; distance from shops and transport mode adopted; behavior in case of urgent need for specific products); personal attitudes regarding technology, online services, e-commerce, value of time, environment, food waste and food market sustainability; willingness to use a meal kit delivery service depending on type of subscription. The main aim of the study, from the logistics and transportation side, is to evaluate potential reduction in trips for grocery and if changes on food logistic chains can be generated with consequent environmental benefits in terms of pollutant emissions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
