The impact of health and environmental messaging with and without product filtering in complex retail markets: the case of pulses.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Multiple barriers exist to healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices. Limited consumer understanding of the health and environmental implications of food choices complicates their abilities to make choices that lead to desired outcomes. The complexity of the retail environment itself may crowd out less immediate motivations to address health or environment. Even if consumers understand general impacts of food choices on health and environmental outcomes, there may be non-negligible time and search costs to identifying the products that meet consumers' needs. In many food categories, the foods containing attributes that help achieve health and sustainability outcomes may represent a small percentage of available products. In this research, we examine the case

SUBMITTER: Gustafson CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11462336 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature