Store Formats, Market Structure, and Consumers’ Food Shopping Decisions

Volpe, Richard; Jaenicke, Edward C.; Chenarides, Lauren

doi:10.1093/aepp/ppx033

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“…Relative differences in the percent of calories from sugar in these store types is likely to drive the high numbers of calories from junk foods. Our findings using nutrient outcomes align with previous research using expenditures from Nielsen 2004–2010 to calculate a single healthfulness score of purchases, which found supermarket purchases to be the healthiest, followed by club stores, supercenters (e.g., Walmart), convenience stores, and dollar stores [ 44 ]. Store stocking requirements [ 51 ] are a potential policy lever to increase the ratio of healthful to unhealthful foods (e.g., eligibility criteria for stores to accept SNAP or local ordinances).…”

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“…The relative share of volume purchases from 2010 to 2012 are consistent with results from prior research, and the trends we find represent a continuation of trends from 2000 to 2012. [ 2 ] Our findings also align with trends in an increasing number of dollar stores in recent years [ 44 ]. Our study adds that the share of purchases from other small convenience stores is decreasing.…”

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Urban vs. Rural Socioeconomic Differences in the Nutritional Quality of Household Packaged Food Purchases by Store Type

Lacko

2020

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The U.S. food system is rapidly changing, including the growth of mass merchandisers and dollar stores, which may impact the quality of packaged food purchases (PFPs). Furthermore, diet-related disparities exist by socioeconomic status (SES) and rural residence. We use data from the 2010–2018 Nielsen Homescan Panel to describe the nutritional profiles of PFPs by store type and to assess whether these vary by household urbanicity and SES. Store types include grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, online shopping, dollar stores, and convenience/drug stores. Food and beverage groups contributing the most calories at each store type are estimated using survey-weighted means, while the associations of urbanicity and SES with nutritional quality are estimated using multivariate regression. We find that households that are customers at particular store types purchase the same quality of food regardless of urbanicity or SES. However, we find differences in the quality of foods between store types and that the quantity of calories purchased at each store type varies according to household urbanicity and SES. Rural shoppers tend to shop more at mass merchandisers and dollar stores with less healthful PFPs. We discuss implications for the types of store interventions most relevant for improving the quality of PFPs.

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Urban vs. Rural Socioeconomic Differences in the Nutritional Quality of Household Packaged Food Purchases by Store Type

Lacko

2020

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“…2 However, available products aligned with the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), 3 and the dietary quality of SNAP consumers’ purchases vary among SNAP-authorized food store types. 4 -6…”

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-Authorized Grocery, Convenience, Dollar, and Restaurant or Delivery Service Settings Are Associated With Increased Obesity Prevalence in Virginia

2020

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Purpose: United States Department of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants use SNAP-authorized stores for dietary purchases. Relationships between obesity prevalence and access to grocery and varied nontraditional (eg, dollar, drug, and convenience) SNAP settings are underexplored. This research aimed to determine the association of a full range of SNAP-authorized stores with obesity prevalence in Virginia. Design: The SNAP Retailer Locator was used to cross-sectionally identify authorized stores, and county health ranking information was applied based on store location. Setting: Virginia, United States. Sample: The SNAP-authorized stores, classified among store categories: grocery or supermarket; drug; mass merchandiser; supercenter; convenience; dollar; club; other; nonfood store; farmers markets; and independent grocery stores. Measures: County-level obesity prevalence with income and rurality as potential confounders. Analysis: Multiple linear regression was used to determine associations between county-level adult obesity prevalence and available SNAP-authorized store formats ( P < .05 a priori). Results: Store format was a predictor of obesity prevalence in Virginia in simple and adjusted models ( R 2 = 0.035, P < .0001 and R 2 = 0.434, P < .0001, respectively). Grocery store or supermarket access was associated with obesity. The SNAP-authorized convenience, dollar, and nonfood stores were associated with a 0.3, 0.5, and 1.3 increase in county obesity prevalence, respectively ( P < .05). Conclusions: Research, practice, and health policy approaches to improve grocery, convenience, dollar, and restaurant or delivery service settings may favorably influence community obesity prevalence in Virginia.

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“…First, our results provide information on the difference in the purchase structures of conventional and organic food products in terms of our two indicators. At a minimum, these comparisons provide information on the consumer's food environment in each retail channel, which is likely to influence consumers' purchasing decisions and food behaviours (HLPE, 2017;Glanz et al, 2005;McKinnon et al, 2008;Caspi et al, 2012;Herforth and Ahmed, 2015;Volpe et al, 2017) and therefore the sustainability of the corresponding diets in terms of our two indicators. Insofar as these differences in purchases are reflected in a difference in the composition of diets, considering these two indicators and depending on their organic product content, they also indicate the extent to which it is misleading to compare conventional and organic agriculture on a product-by-product basis, for example, by comparing specific crop yields, without accounting for the differences in the consumption patterns of regular consumers of organic products and their impact.…”

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Organic Food Retailing and the Conventionalisation Debate

Desquilbet

Maigné²,

Monier-Dilhan³

2018

Ecological Economics

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We propose an empirical study of French sales in conventional food retailing and in specialised organic stores for 2012. We examine the plant or animal origin of food products, as an indicator of the environmental and health impacts of sales, and their degree of processing, as an indicator of their health impact. The results indicate that sales of organic food products are more plant-based and less processed in specialised organic stores than in conventional retail stores, two criteria for a better health and environmental impact. In conventional stores, organic sales are more plant-based and less processed than conventional sales. Organic sales in conventional stores show some specificity, having the highest share of particular product ranges lacking a clear health or environmental impact, such as processed culinary ingredients or unprocessed or minimally processed animal products. Building a typology of buyers in conventional stores, we find that even purchases by buyers with the highest organic purchase intensity in conventional stores are less plant-based and more processed than average purchases in specialised organic stores. With less plant-based and more processed organic products sold in conventional retail stores, our results suggest that the conventionalisation of organic food retailing has negative health and environmental impacts.

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Store Formats, Market Structure, and Consumers’ Food Shopping Decisions

Cited by 26 publications

References 51 publications

Urban vs. Rural Socioeconomic Differences in the Nutritional Quality of Household Packaged Food Purchases by Store Type

Urban vs. Rural Socioeconomic Differences in the Nutritional Quality of Household Packaged Food Purchases by Store Type

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-Authorized Grocery, Convenience, Dollar, and Restaurant or Delivery Service Settings Are Associated With Increased Obesity Prevalence in Virginia

Organic Food Retailing and the Conventionalisation Debate

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