Assessing and addressing food waste in university dining
A dual-design study at Brescia University College in Ontario, Canada

Jessica Vader
Victoria Hanson
Latifeh Ahmadi

#ConsumerAttitudes #ConsumerBehaviour #FoodWaste #PlateWaste #DiningHall #UniversityRestaurants #UniversityStudents

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/683

Rising food bills put takeaways on hold

UK consumers are showing clear signs of restraint in their spending habits, with the latest Barclays Consumer Spending Report for July 2025 pointing to a slowdown in fast food and takeaway purchases. Overall spending in the eating and drinking category increased by just 0.…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #consumerbehaviour #discretionaryspending #fastfood #spendinghabits
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2241355/rising-food-bills-put-takeaways-on-hold/

Biology Bias The Real Reasons Behind Our Decisions by Gill Merrill, 2025

Biology Bias gives a comprehensive understanding of the biological and psychological factors that influence our choices through the lenses of evolutionary psychology and consumer neuroscience.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#psychology
#marketing
#ConsumerBehaviour

#Supermarkets #SelfServeCheckouts #Coles #Australia #ConsumerBehaviour

Supermarket shopping.
Got the goods to the selfserve checkout. 🤔

Scanned the big bag of toilet paper.
On to the theft-prevention scales.
Wasn't going to be enough room for the rest of the grocercies, so moved the bag off the scales.
Oh no, "Return the item to the scales".🐒
Return, wait, try removal again.
Oh no, "Return the item to the scales".
Carefully unpack my bags of groceries onto scanner and shelf and walk out.

#Covid
#CleanAir
#MaskUp

Anyone seen studies on the effects of #Masks on #ConsumerBehaviour?

I"m asking because what I read about the effects on health of Covid makes it clear that using masks and ensuring good CleanAir for crowded indoor spaces is reasonable and necessary.
But Clean Air ain"t happening - except in Philadelphia education, Belgium, Davos, and the Brit Parliament.

So do we buy less when we wear masks?

Is that why basic steps are absent?

#CovidWhyNoCleanAir #CovidConsumers

👋 It is time to introduce an extended team member:

Hello! I am Sohvi Nuojua and I just finished my #researchvisit at @univienna. Thank you @envpsyvienna for the inspirational chats!
A special thanks to @SabinePahl for taking me hiking in the mountains (and to a Hütte afterwards!).

📖 My research focuses on the human-ocean relationship and its potential in shaping #proenvironmental #ConsumerBehaviour 🌊