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Alternative Title:
J Environ Public Health
Personal Author:
Miller, Cassandra ; Bodor, J. Nicholas ; Rose, Donald
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Description:
Marketing research has documented the influence of in-store characteristics-such as the number and placement of display stands-on consumer purchases of a product. However, little information exists on this topic for key foods of interest to those studying the influence of environmental changes on dietary behavior. This study demonstrates a method for characterizing the food environment by measuring the number of separate displays of fruits, vegetables, and energy-dense snack foods (including chips, candies, and sodas) and their proximity to cash registers in different store types. Observations in New Orleans stores (N = 172) in 2007 and 2008 revealed significantly more displays of energy-dense snacks than of fruits and vegetables within all store types, especially supermarkets. Moreover, supermarkets had an average of 20 displays of energy-dense snacks within 1 meter of their cash registers, yet none of them had even a single display of fruits or vegetables near their cash registers. Measures of the number of separate display stands of key foods and their proximity to a cash register can be used by researchers to better characterize food stores and by policymakers to address improvements to the food environment.
Subjects:
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Commerce Environment Design Food Food Supply Fruit Humans Marketing Vegetables
Source:
J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012.
Pubmed ID:
22701497
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC3373162
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
5U48DP001948-02/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
New Orleans, LA
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:f5d4f648fb3395a13dd8fa6d9ce8e3675c3d20a88193f4ccff988bd1e74b1941
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/22742/cdc_22742_DS1.pdf
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