Economic benefits from food recovery at the retail stage: An application to Italian food chains.

Highlights: [•] The food recovery is seen as suitable way to manage food near to its expiry date. [•] The food losses in the retailing stage is an alarming phenomenon. [•] The paper addresses the mathematic modeling of the profit related to food recovery. [•] The optimal time to withdraw the products is determinant for food recovery. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]