Effect of restricted retail merchandising of discretionary food and beverages on population diet: post-trial follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthy Stores 2020 tested a co-designed strategy restricting retailer merchandising of unhealthy foods in a community-level pragmatic, partially randomised, parallel group trial in 20 remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community stores. We aimed to evaluate the impact of Healthy Stores 2020 on free sugar sales 24-weeks post-trial.

Methods

Twenty stores were randomly assigned by a statistician using a single sequence of random assignments to the intervention group, in which a strategy restricted merchandising of unhealthy food (either six or seven strategy components), or to a control group of usual retail practice. The trial was done in partnership with an Indigenous organisation operating in remote Australia. In the post-trial period (24 wee

SUBMITTER: McMahon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12398775 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature