Food Store Access, Availability, and Choice when Purchasing Fruits and Vegetables

Kyureghian, Gayaneh; Nayga, Rodolfo M.

doi:10.1093/ajae/aat043

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“…Evidence from this rich literature suggests in large part that the choice of food stores is based on a variety of factors including prices, product variety, quality of meat and produce, distance from home, courteous services, and degree of competition [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Store choice also has been shown to be influenced by household demographics and past purchase history [13] as well as by characteristics of the entire local food market [14][15][16], the degree of competition among food stores [7], and prices offered by various outlet types [17][18][19][20]. Additionally, previous studies have investigated the role that food access plays in food insecurity, malnutrition, and fruit and vegetable consumption, among other concerns [21][22][23].…”

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Habitual behavior of household food expenditure by store type in the United States

Lee,

Capps

2023

PLoS ONE

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We examine how socio-demographic factors, spending habits, and characteristics of the retail food environment affect household expenditure across all food and beverage categories by store outlet in the United States. The six outlets considered are grocery stores, convenience stores, discount stores, club stores, drug stores, and dollar stores. The source of data for this analysis is the Nielsen Homescan Panel over the period between 2011 and 2015. We employ a dynamic correlated random effect Tobit model to incorporate habitual purchasing behavior as well as a novel method to deal with zero observations using the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation. The results suggest that habitual spending behavior undoubtedly is a key factor in affecting food and beverage expenditures across all store outlets. Additionally, household size, age, urbanization, education, race, ethnicity, and region are drivers of household food and beverage expenditures across the six store outlets.

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Section: Plos Onementioning

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Habitual behavior of household food expenditure by store type in the United States

Lee,

Capps

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…Many studies have shown that healthy eating is important for health and reduces the risk of obesity and other related chronic diseases [6,7]. Furthermore, food environments have significant impacts on people's diet behaviors and food choices [2,[8][9][10][11]. Specifically, residents with better access to supermarkets tend to consume more healthy food and are less likely to be obese [2,9,11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigation of Whether People Are Willing to Pay a Premium for Living in Food Swamps: A Study of Edmonton, Canada

Qiu

Yang

2022

Sustainability

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Extensive studies have examined how unfavorable food environments, especially food swamps (neighborhoods with oversaturated unhealthy food sources), influence people’s dietary behaviors and health. Although excess fast-food consumption may have an adverse effect on health, it also benefits consumers due to its convenience, time saving, and affordability. Therefore, people’s preference for an unhealthy food environment is not necessarily negative. Understanding how people value or disvalue unhealthy food environments is a prerequisite for developing effective policies to promote good diet habits and improve public health. Thus, this study adopts spatial hedonic pricing models to estimate people’s willingness to pay to live in food swamps. The results show that people are willing to pay a premium to live in food swamps when taking low income and low healthy-to-unhealthy food ratios into consideration. On average, a household is willing to pay a premium of C$12,309 to reside in a food swamp neighborhood. Potential reasons for the positive willingness to pay among low-income communities and households with relatively limited access to healthy food may include the unaffordability of healthy diets, preference for better tastes, and time saved in fast-food consumption. These findings can help policymakers evaluate the effectiveness of relevant policies and develop targeted strategies to improve the local food environment.

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“…We demonstrate the importance of accounting for inter‐brand competition when examining food outlet accessibility and household food expenditures. Prior studies consider the density or distance between commercial food outlets (FAH and FAFH) without accounting for the level of competition between them (e.g., Anderson & Matsa, 2011; Currie et al, 2010; Davis & Carpenter, 2009; Dunn, 2010; Kyureghian & Nayga, 2013; Powell et al, 2007; Thomsen et al, 2016). We complement these studies by examining the association between food outlet accessibility and market competition on household food expenditures.…”

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The association between food outlet accessibility and market competition to household food expenditures: Empirical evidence from the convenience store industry in Taiwan

Chang

Lee

2021

Agribusiness

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Many studies document the importance of food outlet accessibility on household food expenditures. However, the role of market competition between commercial food outlets garners little attention in these studies. This paper provides the first evidence distinguishing between the association between food outlet accessibility and market competition among commercial food outlets on household food expenditures. Using administrative profiles on convenience stores and nationally representative repeated cross‐sectional household surveys from 2003 to 2016, we find that inter‐brand competition between convenience store chain brands is associated with total food, food at home, and food away from home expenditures in Taiwan. In contrast, food outlet accessibility has no significant correlation with household food expenditures after controlling for inter‐brand competition. [EconLit citations: Q13, L22].

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Food Store Access, Availability, and Choice when Purchasing Fruits and Vegetables

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Habitual behavior of household food expenditure by store type in the United States

Habitual behavior of household food expenditure by store type in the United States

Investigation of Whether People Are Willing to Pay a Premium for Living in Food Swamps: A Study of Edmonton, Canada

The association between food outlet accessibility and market competition to household food expenditures: Empirical evidence from the convenience store industry in Taiwan

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