Identifying healthy food and beverages in food retail store point-of-sale systems: a feasibility and validity study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health-promoting strategies targeting the food retail environment can influence consumer purchasing behaviour. Most strategies require the healthiness of available food and beverages to be determined. Healthiness classification systems exist; however, no system is linked to remote food retail point-of-sale systems. The objective of this study was to explore the feasibility and validity of a process to identify healthy food and beverages in food retail store point-of-sale systems, as applied in a discount card study in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Australia.

Methods

A convergent mixed methods study design was used. Feasibility was explored through semi-structured interviews with project and store team members involved in a process to id

SUBMITTER: Chan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11887400 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature