A major part of the "inefficiency of logistics" is caused by greed. It costs too much to distribute... because it doesn't make them enough money to do so.

While some of the food waste is because of logistics, the majority of it is not, and one could argue that food shortages are because of logistics; they are one and the same.

When you have food deserts and grocery stores gauge how profitable they are by how much food they throw away, then it's more than "well the food went bad".

I agree that there is the liability argument to be made that no company wants to deal with regarding food. That's why they spend the effort to recall products when they find something wrong with them, en masse. That's why in places like Wal-Mart, responsible associates take damaged food products like dented cans and give them to claims to be proceeded. Because nobody deserves to buy that kind of stuff.

However, there should be a point where if a grocery store or Wal-Mart for example, know that food product isn't selling as fast as they thought or that they just aren't seeing sales for it. Then yeah, they could do something about that than just mindlessly tossing it, like they could strike deals with food banks and charities to give those out with the understanding that they are about to go bad soon.