ArticleEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2018
Towards healthier supermarkets: a national study of in-store food availability, prominence and promotions in New Zealand.
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- Public support for healthy supermarket initiatives focused on product placement: a multi-country cross-sectional analysis of the 2018 International Food Policy Study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Article
- Availability and placement of healthy and discretionary food in Australian supermarkets by chain and level of socio-economic disadvantage.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Urban Retail Food Environments: Relative Availability and Prominence of Exhibition of Healthy vs. Unhealthy Foods at Supermarkets in Buenos Aires, Argentina.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Can Healthy Checkout Counters Improve Food Purchases? Two Real-Life Experiments in Dutch Supermarkets.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- A Model Depicting the Retail Food Environment and Customer Interactions: Components, Outcomes, and Future Directions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Can unhealthy food purchases at checkout counters be discouraged by introducing healthier snacks? A real-life experiment in supermarkets in deprived urban areas in the Netherlands.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Issues in Measuring the Healthiness of Food Environments and Interpreting Relationships with Diet, Obesity and Related Health Outcomes.Current obesity reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesThe retail environment is a key setting for potential public health interventions. This study assessed the healthiness of New Zealand supermarket food environments. SUBJECT/
methodsA sample of 204 (about 50% of national total) supermarkets across three chains was selected in 2016, half in the most deprived socioeconomic areas. Healthiness indicators related to food availability (ratio of cumulative linear shelf length for healthy versus unhealthy foods), prominence (proportion of 'junk food free' check-outs and end-of-aisle endcaps), and promotion (proportion of 'junk food free' promotions in flyers and in-store) were measured.
resultsAbout 26.5% of supermarkets had at least 20% of check-outs junk-food-free and 17.2% had at least 60% of endcaps junk food free. On average 2/3 of food promotions in-store and ¾ of food promotions in flyers were junk food free. For every 1 m of shelf length for unhealthy foods, there was 42 cm of shelf length for healthy foods on average, with large variations between and within stores. In high and low prominence store areas there was on average 1 m of unhealthy foods for every 2 cm of healthy foods and 1 m of unhealthy foods for every 4 m of healthy foods, respectively. The shelf length ratio was significantly lower in the most compared to the least/medium deprived socioeconomic areas (p = 0.003).
conclusionsThe large variations in healthiness indicators within and across chains present a great opportunity for retailers to improve the healthiness of supermarkets towards best practice.
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