Are food and drink available in online and physical supermarkets the same? A comparison of product availability, price, price promotions and nutritional information.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Online supermarkets are increasingly used both by consumers and as a source of data on the food environment. We compared product availability, nutritional information, front-of-pack (FOP) labelling, price and price promotions for food and drink products between physical and online supermarkets.

Design

For physical stores, we collected data on price, price promotions, FOP nutrition labels and nutrition information from a random sample of food and drinks from six UK supermarkets. For online stores, we used foodDB, a research-ready dataset of over 14 million observations of food and drink products available in online supermarkets.

Setting

Six large supermarket stores located near Oxford, UK.

Participants

General sample with 295 food and drink products, p

SUBMITTER: Bhatnagar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7610557 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature