Worldwide the issue of food waste is highly relevant and intensely discussed in public media and social networks. The focus is often on grocery retail, not least because it is easily accessible to the public and there is direct contact with the final consumer. The research work presented here establishes a direct link between this issue and the grocery retail and provides a solution for waste reduction in stores of a stationary food retail company. It consists of reducing the average stocks of quickly perishable goods in stores of grocery retailers. We propose a methodical transfer of quickly perishable goods between grocery stores. Our solution shows the reduction of inventories without increasing the costs in the grocery stores. The approach is to achieve a daily delivery and an internal transfer of goods between stores. As a result of the decline in average inventories, both waste volumes and total costs are reduced in stores. A realistic simulation study shows that the transfer of goods is a suitable method for the reduction of waste in the considered application area. The developed approach can be implemented in practice without loss of the customer service level.