Healthy food products at the point of purchase: An in‐store experimental analysis

Sigurðsson, Valdimar; Larsen, Nils Magne; Gunnarsson, Didrik

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“…The study sample sizes range from 37 supermarket customers [50] to more than 200,000 beneficiaries of a large intervention [23]. Most studies were conducted in the U.S.A. Four were conducted in Canada [51–54], one in the UK [55], one in Japan [56], one in France [57], one in South Africa [23], one in Norway [58], one in Australia [27] three in New Zealand [59–61], four in the Netherlands [26, 62–64] and one in the Republic of Marshal Islands [65]. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Four studies considered effects of interventions on both healthy and unhealthy foods [25, 59, 60, 77]. Finally, one study [58] focused on dried fish and fruit mix, while others [27, 63, 64] targeted low-calorie products.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, most use self-reported data or dietary recalls, but some of the studies used electronic sales data [26–28, 56, 58–60, 68, 69, 73, 77, 80]. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Examples of healthy foods targeted include whole grains, F&V, lower-fat milk [23, 27, 70], healthier beverages, lower sugar cereals [73, 78], low-calorie beverages [27], vitamins A & D, calcium [51] and fish [58]. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Among the studies that met the inclusion criteria, 14 have combined information and access/availability elements [50, 51, 53, 58, 65–67, 72, 73, 75, 78–80, 82]. All of these studies reported positive effect in one or more of their outcome measures, particularly, increase in purchase of healthier foods.…”

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What is the effectiveness of obesity related interventions at retail grocery stores and supermarkets? —a systematic review

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BackgroundThe Prevalence of obesity and overweight has been increasing in many countries. Many factors have been identified as contributing to obesity including the food environment, especially the access, availability and affordability of healthy foods in grocery stores and supermarkets. Several interventions have been carried out in retail grocery/supermarket settings as part of an effort to understand and influence consumption of healthful foods. The review’s key outcome variable is sale/purchase of healthy foods as a result of the interventions. This systematic review sheds light on the effectiveness of food store interventions intended to promote the consumption of healthy foods and the methodological quality of studies reporting them.MethodsSystematic literature search spanning from 2003 to 2015 (inclusive both years), and confined to papers in the English language was conducted. Studies fulfilling search criteria were identified and critically appraised. Studies included in this review report health interventions at physical food stores including supermarkets and corner stores, and with outcome variable of adopting healthier food purchasing/consumption behavior. The methodological quality of all included articles has been determined using a validated 16-item quality assessment tool (QATSDD).ResultsThe literature search identified 1580 publications, of which 42 met the inclusion criteria. Most interventions used a combination of information (e.g. awareness raising through food labeling, promotions, campaigns, etc.) and increasing availability of healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. Few used price interventions. The average quality score for all papers is 65.0%, or an overall medium methodological quality. Apart from few studies, most studies reported that store interventions were effective in promoting purchase of healthy foods.ConclusionGiven the diverse study settings and despite the challenges of methodological quality for some papers, we find efficacy of in-store healthy food interventions in terms of increased purchase of healthy foods. Researchers need to take risk of bias and methodological quality into account when designing future studies that should guide policy makers. Interventions which combine price, information and easy access to and availability of healthy foods with interactive and engaging nutrition information, if carefully designed can help customers of food stores to buy and consume more healthy foods.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3985-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, most use self-reported data or dietary recalls, but some of the studies used electronic sales data [26–28, 56, 58–60, 68, 69, 73, 77, 80]. …”

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confidence: 99%

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A behaviorist perspective on how to address negative consumer behaviors

Janiszewski,

Laran

2023

Consumer Psychology Review

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The cognitivist paradigm has dominated the past 50 years of consumer research. Cognitivist theories have provided extensive insights into pre‐consumption behaviors (i.e., information gathering, attitude formation, product choice, and product purchase) and the processes that support these behaviors (i.e., attitudes, persuasion, information processing, memory, knowledge, and choice processes). Yet, the cognitivist paradigm has limitations, especially when it comes to addressing detrimental consumption, over‐consumption, and perverse incentives in consumption systems. To address these issues, we discuss how a behaviorist paradigm can be used to identify more efficient and effective interventions for societal ills. The behaviorist perspective emphasizes that an alteration of the consumption environment can influence the ease of expressing a behavior and the rewards/punishments associated with this expression. Hence, behaviorism is useful in identifying and implementing intelligent nudges.

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Reporting of demographic variables in theJournal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Jones

Peter

Ruckle

2020

J of App Behav Analysis

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Describing demographic variables (e.g., ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, gender/sex, age) of participants may be important for identifying relations between these variables and behavior‐analytic procedures. Previous research found that demographic variables were underreported in behavior‐analytic studies dealing with particular populations (e.g., children with Autism Spectrum Disorder), interventions (e.g., verbal behavior), or for a subset of demographic variables. We evaluated the extent to which studies recently published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis included descriptions of demographic variables of participants. Demographic variables were often underreported, which may limit the broader dissemination of these behavior‐analytic studies and the development of culturally responsive modifications to behavioral interventions.

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Healthy food products at the point of purchase: An in‐store experimental analysis

Cited by 54 publications

References 13 publications

What is the effectiveness of obesity related interventions at retail grocery stores and supermarkets? —a systematic review

What is the effectiveness of obesity related interventions at retail grocery stores and supermarkets? —a systematic review

A behaviorist perspective on how to address negative consumer behaviors

Reporting of demographic variables in theJournal of Applied Behavior Analysis

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