Retail Grocery Store Marketing Strategies and Obesity

Glanz, Karen; Bader, Michael; Iyer, Shally

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2012.01.013

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“…Future research should use food retailer sales data and potentially loyalty card data to objectively measure food purchasing at the store and consumer level respectively. 73 Sales and loyalty card data represent objective, theoretically proximal outcomes that may serve to elucidate mechanisms by which retail food environments ultimately influence dietary behaviours.…”

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Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review

Minaker

Shuh

Olstad

et al. 2016

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: The field of retail food environments research is relatively new in Canada. The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of retail food environments research conducted before July 2015 in Canada. Specifically, this review describes research foci and key findings, identifies knowledge gaps and suggests future directions for research. METHODS:A search of published literature concerning Canadian investigations of retail food environment settings (food stores, restaurants) was conducted in July 2015 using PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, PsychInfo and ERIC. Studies published in English that reported qualitative or quantitative data on any aspect of the retail food environment were included, as were conceptual papers and commentaries. SYNTHESIS:Eighty-eight studies were included in this review and suggest that the field of retail food environments research is rapidly expanding in Canada. While only 1 paper was published before 2005, 66 papers were published between 2010 and 2015. Canadian food environments research typically assessed either the socio-economic patterning of food environments (n = 28) or associations between retail food environments and diet, anthropometric or health outcomes (n = 33). Other papers profiled methodological research, qualitative studies, intervention research and critical commentaries (n = 27). Key gaps in the current literature include measurement inconsistency among studies and a lack of longitudinal and intervention studies. CONCLUSION:Retail food environments are a growing topic of research, policy and program development in Canada. Consistent methods (where appropriate), longitudinal and intervention research, and close partnerships between researchers and key stakeholders would greatly advance the field of retail food environments research in Canada.

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Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review

Minaker

Shuh

Olstad

et al. 2016

Can J Public Health

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“…Socio-ecological explanations for these health risks highlight the important role of the retail environment (Mhurchu et al, 2013), where sugar-sweetened beverages, energy-dense snacks, alcohol, and tobacco products are widely available, inexpensive, and heavily advertised (Glanz et al, 2012; Hillier et al, 2009; Paynter and Edwards, 2009). Convenience stores are the dominant channel for sales and marketing of cigarettes (American Heart Association and Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, 2012), and the presence of unhealthy products as well as the absence of healthy food alternatives in convenience stores are well documented (Horsley et al, 2014; Rimkus et al, 2013; Sharkey et al, 2012).…”

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Convenience store visits by US adolescents: Rationale for healthier retail environments

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Given interest in the public health impact of convenience stores, it is surprising that so little is known about the popularity of these destinations for youth. We surveyed 2,772 adolescents (age 13–16) from a nationally representative web panel of US households. Nearly half (47.5%) of adolescents reported visiting convenience stores at least weekly. Significant risk factors for frequent visits were age, being African American, living in rural areas and in areas with higher levels of neighborhood deprivation. With approximately 4.1 million US adolescents visiting convenience stores at least weekly, new policies and other interventions are needed to promote a healthier retail environment for youth.

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“…Two trials provided participants with discount coupons for healthier food choices and the other two trials included goal-setting, making it difficult to draw conclusions on the effectiveness of tailored nutrition education. The third review [7] focused on describing retail grocery store marketing strategies and included 125 articles. This review concluded that access to healthy foods and less access to unhealthy foods may increase healthful eating; product packaging (size) and images affect purchase and consumption; coupons and cross-promotion increase product liking and purchase; healthy checkout aisles can be helpful for reducing unhealthy impulse purchases, and; shelf labels, samples and taste testing, and end-of-aisle displays are most noticed by customers [7].…”

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“…The third review [7] focused on describing retail grocery store marketing strategies and included 125 articles. This review concluded that access to healthy foods and less access to unhealthy foods may increase healthful eating; product packaging (size) and images affect purchase and consumption; coupons and cross-promotion increase product liking and purchase; healthy checkout aisles can be helpful for reducing unhealthy impulse purchases, and; shelf labels, samples and taste testing, and end-of-aisle displays are most noticed by customers [7]. The fourth review [8] focused on the effect of food price changes on food purchasing patterns in a laboratory-type environment testing hypothetical food decision-making processes.…”

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Nutrition interventions at point-of-sale to encourage healthier food purchasing: a systematic review

2014

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BackgroundPoint-of-sale is a potentially important opportunity to promote healthy eating through nutrition education and environment modification. The aim of this review was to describe and review the evidence of effectiveness of various types of interventions that have been used at point-of-sale to encourage purchase and/or eating of healthier food and to improve health outcomes, and the extent to which effectiveness was related to intensity, duration and intervention setting.MethodsRecords from searches in databases were screened and assessed against inclusion criteria. Included studies had risk of bias assessed. Intervention effectiveness was assessed for two outcomes: i) purchase and/or intake of healthier food options and/or nutrient intake; and ii) mediating factors that might effect the primary outcome.ResultsThe search identified 5635 references. Thirty-two papers met the inclusion criteria. Twelve studies had low risk of bias and were classified as strong, nine were moderate and 11 were weak. Six intervention types and a range of different outcome measures were described in these papers: i) nutrition education and promotion alone through supermarkets/stores; ii) nutrition education plus enhanced availability of healthy food; iii) monetary incentive alone; iv) nutrition education plus monetary incentives; v) nutrition intervention through vending machines; and vi) nutrition intervention through shopping online. The evidence of this review indicates that monetary incentives offered to customers for a short-term look promising in increasing purchase of healthier food options when the intervention is applied by itself in stores or supermarkets. There was a lack of good quality studies addressing all other types of relevant point-of-sale interventions examining change in purchase and/or intake of healthier food options. There were few studies that examined mediating factors that might mediate the effect on the primary outcomes of relevant interventions.ConclusionsA range of intervention types have been used at point-of-sale to encourage healthy purchasing and/or intake of healthier food options and to improve health outcomes. There is a need for more well designed studies on the effectiveness of a range of point-of-sale interventions to encourage healthier eating and improve health outcomes, and of the mediating factors that might impact these interventions.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-919) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Retail Grocery Store Marketing Strategies and Obesity

Cited by 270 publications

References 101 publications

Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review

Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review

Convenience store visits by US adolescents: Rationale for healthier retail environments

Nutrition interventions at point-of-sale to encourage healthier food purchasing: a systematic review

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