Features in grocery stores that motivate shoppers to buy healthier foods, ConsumerStyles 2014

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• Alternative Title:
  J Community Health
• Personal Author:
  Moore, Latetia V ; Pinard, Courtney A. ; Yaroch, Amy L.
• Description:
  Objective
  
  We examined nine features in grocery stores shoppers reported motivated them to purchase more healthful foods in the past month.
  
  Design
  
  Features were compiled from common supermarket practices for each of the 4 Ps of marketing: pricing, placement, promotion, and product. We examined percentages of the features overall and by shopping frequency using chi-square tests from a 2014 cross sectional web-based health attitudes and behaviors survey, ConsumerStyles. The survey was fielded from June to July in 2014.
  
  Setting
  
  Participants were part of a market research consumer panel that were randomly recruited by probability-based sampling using address-based sampling methods to achieve a sample representative of the U.S. population.
  
  Subjects
  
  Data from 4,242 adults ages 18 and older were analyzed.
  
  Results
  
  About 44% of respondents indicated at least one feature motivated them to purchase more healthful foods. Top choices included in-store coupons or specials (20.1%), availability of convenient, ready-to-eat more healthful foods (18.8%), product labels or advertising on packages (15.2%), and labels or signs on shelves that highlighted more healthful options (14.6%). Frequent shoppers reported being motivated to purchase more healthful foods by in-store tastings/recipe demonstrations and coupons/specials more often than infrequent shoppers.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Enhancing the visibility and appeal of more healthful food items in grocery stores may help improve dietary choices in some populations but additional research is needed to identify the most effective strategies for interventions.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Cross-Sectional Studies Feeding Behavior Female Food Supply Health Behavior Humans Male Marketing Middle Aged Motivation Young Adult

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• Source:
  J Community Health. 41(4):812-817.
• Pubmed ID:
  26831484
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4930406
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5f07367acbdb268819cbfaf5e680f135832619f516aeaff7363f2231f5c5bfda
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40327/cdc_40327_DS1.pdf
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