Beyond the supermarket: analyzing household shopping trip patterns that include food at home and away from home retailers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Modifying a household's food environment by targeting a single retailer type, like supermarkets, has a limited impact on dietary outcomes. This may be because the food environment has a limited impact on shopping behaviors, or because households are not as reliant on supermarkets as we assume. However, our understanding of how households shop for food, especially when considering the use of both food at home (FAH) retailers, such as supermarkets, and away from home retailers (FAFH), such as restaurants, is limited. Thus, understanding how households shop for food is a necessary first step when developing programs to modify food purchasing behavior.

Methods

K-means cluster analysis was used to identify weekly food shopping trip patterns based on the percentage of t

SUBMITTER: Yenerall J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678129 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature