Guiding Stars: the effect of a nutrition navigation program on consumer purchases at the supermarket

Sutherland, Lisa; Kaley, Lori A.; Fischer, Leslie M.

doi:10.3945/ajcn.2010.28450c

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“…As the authors note, it is important to advance the goal of the Institute of Medicine to determine the influence of shelftag and related navigation tools on the purchase of nutritious foods. While their findings are largely consistent with previous examinations of the Guiding Stars system by Sutherland et al (2) and Rahkovsky et al (3) , we question the analysis suggesting that such programmes may lead to lower profits and thereby jeopardize the sustainability of these front-of-pack systems.…”

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Regarding the paper ‘The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods’ by Cawley et al.

Blumberg¹,

Broihier²,

Duncan³

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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confidence: 82%

Regarding the paper ‘The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods’ by Cawley et al.

Blumberg¹,

Broihier²,

Duncan³

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Although Sutherland et al (17) examined this same nutrition rating system, they focused on the change in proportion of foods purchased with stars and on sales of All models control for indicator variables for week of year to control for seasonality and a linear time trend. Sample size for all specifications is n 15 251, except in the last row where n 15 156.…”

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The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods

Cawley

Sweeney

Sobal

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The current study examines the impact of a nutrition rating system on consumers' food purchases in supermarkets. Design: Aggregate sales data for 102 categories of food (over 60 000 brands) on a weekly basis for 2005-2007 from a supermarket chain of over 150 stores are analysed. Change in weekly sales of nutritious and less nutritious foods, after the introduction of a nutrition rating system on store shelves, is calculated, controlling for seasonality and time trends in sales. Setting: One hundred and sixty-eight supermarket stores in the north-east USA, from January 2005 to December 2007. Subjects: Consumers purchasing goods at the supermarket chain during the study period. Results: After the introduction of the nutrition ratings, overall weekly food sales declined by an average of 3637 units per category (95 % CI -5961, -1313; P < 0·01). Sales of less nutritious foods fell by 8·31 % (95 % CI -13·50, -2·80 %; P = 0·004), while sales of nutritious foods did not change significantly (P = 0·21); as a result, the percentage of food purchases rated as nutritious rose by 1·39 % (95 % CI 0·58, 2·20 %; P < 0·01). The decrease in sales of less nutritious foods was greatest in the categories of canned meat and fish, soda pop, bakery and canned vegetables. Conclusions: The introduction of the nutrition ratings led shoppers to buy a more nutritious mix of products. Interestingly, it did so by reducing purchases of less nutritious foods rather than by increasing purchases of nutritious foods. In evaluating nutrition information systems, researchers should focus on the entire market basket, not just sales of nutritious foods.

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“…Moreover, advertising encourages people to buy products that are not on promotion, increasing their food expenditures 31 . On the other hand, supplying nutritional information that helps consumers shop at supermarkets may effectively change their food acquisition profile, encouraging them to buy healthier items 40 .…”

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Geographic and socioeconomic distribution of food vendors: a case study of a municipality in the Southern Brazil

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The objective of this study was to identify the food vendor distribution profile of the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, and investigate its association with the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of different municipal regions. This descriptive, cross-sectional study obtained the location of food vendors from secondary data from different institutional sources. The density of different types of food vendors per 1,000 inhabitants in each municipal weighted area was calculated. The Kruskal-Wallis test compared the mean density of food vendors and the weighted income areas. The lowest-income regions had the lowest density of butchers, snack bars, supermarkets, bakeries/pastry shops, natural product stores, juice bars, and convenience stores. The identification of these areas may encourage the creation of public policies that facilitate healthy food startups and/or maintenance of healthy food vendors, especially in the lowest-income regions.

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Guiding Stars: the effect of a nutrition navigation program on consumer purchases at the supermarket

Cited by 172 publications

References 18 publications

Regarding the paper ‘The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods’ by Cawley et al.

Regarding the paper ‘The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods’ by Cawley et al.

The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods

Geographic and socioeconomic distribution of food vendors: a case study of a municipality in the Southern Brazil

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