Gains Made By Walmart's Healthier Food Initiative Mirror Preexisting Trends.

ABSTRACT: Healthier food initiatives conducted by national food retailers may offer opportunities to improve the nutritional profile of food purchases. Using a longitudinal data set of packaged food purchases made by US households, we examined the effect of a healthier food initiative officially launched by Walmart in 2011. From 2000 to 2013, household-level purchases of packaged foods at Walmart showed major declines in energy, sodium, and total sugar density, as well as in quantities of sugary beverages, grain-based desserts, snacks, and candy. These trends in packaged food purchases were more pronounced than similar concurrent trends seen at other major food retailers. However, the declines seen at Walmart after the initiative's official implementation did not exceed what would have been expected

SUBMITTER: Taillie LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4692370 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature