ArticleEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2011
Point-of-purchase health information encourages customers to purchase vegetables: objective analysis by using a point-of-sales system.
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- The efficacy of nudge theory strategies in influencing adult dietary behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Increasing vegetable intakes: rationale and systematic review of published interventions.European journal of nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- Supermarket and grocery store-based interventions to promote healthful food choices and eating practices: a systematic review.Preventing chronic disease · 2013Pooled it
- Nudging while online grocery shopping: A randomized feasibility trial to enhance nutrition in individuals with food insecurity.Appetite · 2020Trial
- Evaluation of a pilot healthy eating intervention in restaurants and food stores of a rural community: a randomized community trial.BMC public health · 2015Trial
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- A Proposed Research Agenda for Promoting Healthy Retail Food Environments in the East Asia-Pacific Region.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
- Healthy food marketing and purchases of fruits and vegetables in large grocery stores.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Double Up Food Bucks program effects on SNAP recipients' fruit and vegetable purchases.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Store owners as potential agents of change: energy drinks in the interior of Alaska.International journal of circumpolar health · 2017Article
- Hospital-Based Food Environment Interventions to Improve Workforce Dietary Behaviour: A Systematic Literature Review.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectivesPoint-of-purchase (POP) information at food stores could help promote healthy dietary habits. However, it has been difficult to evaluate the effects of such intervention on customers' behavior. We objectively evaluated the usefulness of POP health information for vegetables in the modification of customers' purchasing behavior by using the database of a point-of-sales (POS) system.
methodsTwo supermarket stores belonging to the same chain were assigned as the intervention store (store I) and control store (store C). POP health information for vegetables was presented in store I for 60 days. The percent increase in daily sales of vegetables over the sales on the same date of the previous year was compared between the stores by using the database of the POS system, adjusting for the change in monthly visitors from the previous year (adjusted ∆sales).
resultsThe adjusted ∆sales significantly increased during the intervention period (Spearman's ρ = 0.258, P for trend = 0.006) at store I but did not increase at store C (ρ = -0.037, P for trend = 0.728). The growth of the mean adjusted ∆sales of total vegetables from 30 days before the intervention period through the latter half of the intervention period was estimated to be greater at store I than at store C by 18.7 percentage points (95% confidence interval 1.6-35.9).
conclusionsHealth-related POP information for vegetables in supermarkets can encourage customers to purchase and, probably, consume vegetables.
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