A Census of Midsize to Large Supermarkets in Toronto: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Consumer Nutrition Environment

Camden, Andi; Levy, Jennifer; Bassil, Kate; Vanderlinden, Loren; Barnett, Olanna White; Minaker, Leia M.; Mulligan, Kate; Campbell, Monica

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2017.12.002

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“…Our results also support prior findings indicating that discount supermarket chains offer the least supportive environment for healthy food choices/purchases, compared to traditional and the organic supermarket chain (24,44,45) . Discount supermarket chains mainly attract consumers with a lower income, who have a higher sensitivity to lower prices compared to consumers with a higher socio-economic status (8,14) and are also suffering more often from diet-related non-communicable diseases.…”

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“…Lastly, all types of promoted foods and drinks in all supermarket sales flyers were taken into account, which gives a complete overview of the range of products. Some studies only examined the first page of each circular, which could lead to an overestimation of food groups often advertised on the first page (12,21,44,45) . However, limitations of this study must be noted as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

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How healthy and processed are foods and drinks promoted in supermarket sales flyers? A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands

Hendriksen

Jansen

Dijkstra

et al. 2021

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective To investigate to what extent promotions in Dutch supermarket sales flyers contribute to a healthy diet and whether there are differences between supermarket types. Design A cross-sectional study investigating promotions on food and beverages (n=7825) in supermarket sales flyers from thirteen Dutch supermarket chains (8-week period), including ten traditional, two discount and one organic supermarket chain(s). Promoted products were categorized by food group (e.g. dairy); contribution to a healthy diet (yes/no); degree of processing (e.g. ultra-processed), promotion type (advertised only, temporary reduction in price or volume-based promotions), and percentage discount of price promotions. Differences between supermarket chains in types of price promotions, the degree of healthiness and processing of products were investigated. Results In total, 70.7% of all promoted products in supermarket sales flyers did not contribute to a healthy diet and 56.6% was ultra-processed. The average discount on less healthy products (28.7%) was similar to that of healthy products (28.9%). Less healthy products were more frequently promoted via volume-based promotions than healthy products (37.6% vs. 25.4%, p<0.001). Discount supermarket chains promoted less healthy (80.3%) and ultra-processed (65.1%) products more often than traditional supermarket chains (respectively 69.6% and 56.6%). Conclusions The majority of promoted products via supermarkets sales flyers do not contribute to a healthy diet. As promotions are an important determinant of food purchasing decisions, supermarkets do not support healthy choices. Future studies should identify barriers that withhold supermarket chains from promoting more healthy foods in supermarket sales flyers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How healthy and processed are foods and drinks promoted in supermarket sales flyers? A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands

Hendriksen

Jansen

Dijkstra

et al. 2021

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Since many supermarkets stock the same kinds of produce, they spend much time competing with one another on price or quality in order to attract more foragers by offering particular cost-benefit trade-offs. This competition effectively stratifies supermarkets, as different socioeconomic groupings respond to different trade-offs with specific kinds of food choice limitations resulting within each group ( Camden et al, 2018 ). Given this, one assumption might be that foragers face a patch choice problem, and more or less solve it as a prey choice problem.…”

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Food shopping under risk and uncertainty

Dickins

Schalz

2020

Learning and Motivation

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During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic panic buying of food was reported by the media. Panic buying has received little attention within behavioural science. In this paper we suggest that optimality models of foraging under risk and uncertainty would be a fruitful place to begin developing useful and testable hypotheses about this behaviour. In making this case we relate panic buying to a general increase in foraging effort, which we characterize as an increase in purchasing and spending. We note two risks during the pandemic – that of food security and that of predation, where predation is understood as a perceived threat to life due to infection risk. Food security was effectively solved early on in the pandemic, whilst perceived threat to life has remained but diminished to some limited extent. We relate panic buying to food caching as a method of buffering risk and make six predictions about how this behaviour should present under food insecurity and perceived threat to life.

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“…Few new instruments have been developed for an adult population during the last three years, and this is maybe due to the fact that the majority of studies that were found until May 2018 used the available instruments developed previously, cited in Table 2 and Table 3 [118,119,120,121,122,123,124].…”

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Data Collection Instruments for Obesogenic Environments in Adults: A Scoping Review

Martínez-García

Trescastro-López

Sánchez

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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The rise in obesity prevalence has increased research interest in the obesogenic environment and its influence on excess weight. The aim of the present study was to review and map data collection instruments for obesogenic environments in adults in order to provide an overview of the existing evidence and enable comparisons. Through the scoping review method, different databases and webpages were searched between January 1997 and May 2018. Instruments were included if they targeted adults. The documents were categorised as food environment or built environment. In terms of results, 92 instruments were found: 46 instruments measuring the food environment, 42 measuring the built environment, and 4 that characterised both environments. Numerous diverse instruments have been developed to characterise the obesogenic environment, and some of them have been developed based on existing ones; however, most of them have not been validated and there is very little similarity between them, hindering comparison of the results obtained. In addition, most of them were developed and used in the United States and were written in English. In conclusion, there is a need for a robust instrument, improving or combining existing ones, for use within and across countries, and more sophisticated study designs where the environment is contemplated in an interdisciplinary approach.

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A Census of Midsize to Large Supermarkets in Toronto: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Consumer Nutrition Environment

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

How healthy and processed are foods and drinks promoted in supermarket sales flyers? A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands

How healthy and processed are foods and drinks promoted in supermarket sales flyers? A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands

Food shopping under risk and uncertainty

Data Collection Instruments for Obesogenic Environments in Adults: A Scoping Review

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