scholarly journals Designing Online Grocery Stores to Support Healthy Eating for Weight Loss

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 200-200
Author(s):  
Lisa Harnack ◽  
Simone French ◽  
Joseph Redden ◽  
Nancy Sherwood ◽  
Gabrielle Rivera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Menu Planning ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Healthful Food

Abstract Objectives To begin development of online grocery store design features that could support healthful food purchasing by shoppers who are trying to lose weight, using a Value Proposition Design approach to product development. Methods One-on-one interviews were conducted with adults who reported they were trying to lose weight (n = 25) to gain insight into their shopping needs and perceptions. Interview results were used to identify four potential online grocery shopping features that could support healthful food purchase decisions. Prototypes were developed for each feature, and one-on-one interviews were conducted with a different sample of adults who reported trying to lose weight (n = 25) to gather feedback on the prototypes. Results Based on customer needs identified through insight interview, the following four potential online grocery store features were devised and prototyped by the research team: 1) Nutritional quality rating of shopping cart items purchased, with suggestions for improvement provided; 2) Menu planning support tool to provide menu and recipe suggestions tailored to individual preferences; 3) An interactive virtual grocery aisle designed as a fun way to discover healthy products and meal ideas; and 4) A healthy shopping preference option to opt into a shopping experience that prioritizes the display and advertising of foods that align with the shopper's health and nutrition goals. Results from feedback interviews indicated that the menu planning support tool and the healthy shopping preference option were both highly positively rated and believed to be effective in helping support healthy food choices by most participants. Conclusions Further development and evaluation work is warranted for the online grocery store features found to be most highly rated. This study illustrates application of a design thinking approach to developing nutrition promotion related products/programs. Funding Sources University of Minnesota JB Hawley Faculty Research Award.

scholarly journals Are Online Grocery Stores Being Designed to Support Consumer Nutrition Information Needs? Results from a Marketplace Survey (P04-151-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Olzenak ◽  
Lisa Harnack ◽  
Joeseph Redden ◽  
Simone French ◽  
Nancy Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Packaged Foods ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
Nutrition Facts Panel

Abstract Objectives The aim of this study was to describe the availability of nutrition-related information and features on leading online grocery store websites. Methods This study was a cross-sectional design. A systematic protocol was followed to assess availability of nutrition-related features on twelve online grocery shopping websites. The availability of nutrition facts panel and ingredient statement information for 26 food products across a variety of food categories was assessed along with the availability of additional nutrition-related features such as the ability to filter food search results by nutrition attributes. Means, frequencies, and percentages were calculated. Results Common nutrition-related search filters available on the store websites included organic (10 of 12 stores), gluten free (nine of 12 stores), low in fat (six of 12 stores), and sugar-free/no sugar added (five of 12 stores). Nutrition facts panel information was available on the websites for 42%-100% of the packaged food and 33%-58% of the fresh produce items. Foods with available ingredient information ranged from 25%-100% for packaged foods to 50%-58% for the fresh produce items. Conclusions Nutrition facts panel and ingredient statement information may be less available online for packaged foods than in physical stores where all packaged products must have labels. However, this information was sometimes available online for produce items even though labeling is not required on ‘unpackaged’ foods like fresh produce. Many online stores included nutrition-related features not available or feasible to provide in physical stores. Online grocery shopping marketplaces have the potential to support shoppers in making healthful food purchase decisions. Funding Sources This research was supported by a University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health J.B. Hawley Research Award.

scholarly journals Identifying Food Deserts and People with Low Food Access, and Disparities in Dietary Habits and Health in Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 7936
Author(s):  
Sanghyo Kim ◽  
Kyei-Im Lee ◽  
Seong-Yoon Heo ◽  
Seung-Chul Noh
Keyword(s):  
Food Access ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
National Level ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Related Information ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Access Problem

This study aims to identify the regions and people with low food access (LFA) for Korea at the national level and to examine disparities in food consumption, dietary behavior, and health outcome for those regions and people. Based on the distance to the nearest grocery store from residence, the regions and people with LFA are identified through geographical information system (GIS) analysis. To examine disparities between the regions and people with LFA and without LFA, a consumer survey is conducted and data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Community Health Survey are analyzed. This study found that there exists a serious access to food issue in Korea, especially for the aged. Moreover, there also exist significant disparities between the regions and people with and without LFA in the distance and one-way travel time to the grocery store that is mainly visited, frequency of offline/online grocery shopping, availability of various foods, dietary habits such as eating regularly, eating nutritionally balanced foods, and eating sufficient fruit/vegetable/whole grains, the acquisition and utilization of food-related information, and health outcomes. This study suggests that, to resolve such a serious food access problem, assistance policies, such as mobile grocery stores and lunch-box delivery, need to be activated in countries similar to Korea since this problem could potentially deteriorate the national medical finances as well as the regional and individual disparities.

scholarly journals Designing Online Grocery Stores to Support Healthy Eating for Weight Loss

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Lisa Harnack ◽  
Joseph Redden ◽  
Simone French ◽  
Nancy E. Sherwood ◽  
Gabrielle Rivera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Planning Tool ◽  
Shopping Cart ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
Meal Planning

Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to identify features to include in online grocery stores to support healthful food purchasing by those striving to lose weight. Design: A Value Proposition Design Approach was used to gain shopper insights, devise potential online grocery store features, and obtain feedback on these features. Setting: Telephone interviews were conducted to gain insight into shoppers’ needs and perceptions. Results were used by the research team to identify potential online grocery shopping features that may support healthful purchase decisions, and interviews were conducted with a different sample of shoppers to gather feedback on features. Participants: Insight (n=25) and feedback (n=25) interviews were conducted with convenience samples of adults trying to lose weight. Results: Participants were primarily female, white, college educated, and with obesity or overweight. Online grocery features devised by the research team based on findings from the insight interviews included a: 1) shopping cart nutrition rating tool; 2) healthy meal planning tool; 3) interactive healthy eating inspiration aisle; and 4) healthy shopping preference settings option. Findings from the feedback interviews indicated that the healthy meal planning tool, healthy shopping preference settings option and shopping cart nutrition rating tool features were positively rated by most participants. Conclusions: There are multiple features grocers should consider including in their online stores to attract and support customers striving to eat healthy for weight loss.

scholarly journals Reducing private car demand, fact or fiction? A study mapping changes in accessibility to grocery stores in Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Sve Rokseth ◽  
Eva Heinen ◽  
Espen Aukrust Hauglin ◽  
Tobias Nordström ◽  
Bendik Manum
Keyword(s):  
Grocery Store ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Main Mode ◽  
Private Car ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
Car Driving ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Background Travel surveys show that the amount of private car driving in Norway has increased significantly since the mid-1980s. Private car driving has for a long time been the main mode of transport for retail and service trips, and grocery shopping trips represent over 60% of the retail and service travels. Despite the growing number of studies addressing accessibility to daily destinations, to the best of the authors’ knowledge there are no studies examining these issues over time. Methods This paper aims to investigate changes in accessibility to grocery stores over time and use two counties in Norway as examples. Based on GIS data at a detailed level, distances from dwellings to nearest grocery store has been examined. Findings The results from the spatial analyses reveal significant changes from 1980 to 2019: The share of the population living within 500-m from a grocery store has decreased from 55% to 34% in one of the counties examined and from 36% to 19% in the other. This indicates that the share of people living within walking distance to a local grocery store has nearly halved. With such changes in accessibility to grocery stores, increased car driving for grocery shopping should not come as a surprise. Contrary to the frequent statements about sustainable urban development and active transportation, it seems that Norway still is developing as a country that in the future will be more and not less dependent on private cars.

scholarly journals Strategies to reduce risk perception among grocery shoppers in the US: A survey study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0251060
Author(s):  
Jie Li ◽  
Leslie J. Verteramo Chiu ◽  
Miguel I. Gómez ◽  
Nelson L. Bills
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
New York State ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The Us

During the COVID-19 lockdown in the US, many businesses were shut down temporarily. Essential businesses, most prominently grocery stores, remained open to ensure access to food and household essentials. Grocery shopping presents increased potential for COVID-19 infection because customers and store employees are in proximity to each other. This study investigated shoppers’ perceptions of COVID-19 infection risks and put them in context by comparing grocery shopping to other activities outside home, and examined whether a proactive preventive action by grocery stores influence shoppers’ perceived risk of COVID-19 infection. Our data were obtained via an anonymous online survey distributed between April 2 and 10, 2020 to grocery shoppers in New York State (the most affected by the pandemic at the time of the study) and Washington State (the first affected by the pandemic). We found significant factors associated with high levels of risk perception on grocery shoppers. We identified some effective preventive actions that grocery stores implement to alleviate anxiety and risk perception. We found that people are generally more concerned about in-store grocery shopping relative to other out-of-home activities. Findings suggest that a strict policy requiring grocery store employees to use facemasks and gloves greatly reduced shoppers’ perceived risk rating of infection of themselves by 37.5% and store employees by 51.2%. Preventive actions by customers and businesses are critical to reducing the unwitting transmission of COVID-19 as state governments prepare to reopen the economy and relax restrictions on activities outside home.

Transnational adaptation: changing determinants of grocery store choice of German consumers in London

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-40
Author(s):  
Ines Oswald
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Store Choice ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Consumer Markets ◽  
Complex Matter

This paper investigates grocery store selection among Germans in Greater London compared to native UK residents. Since consumers hold so much power, the grocery retail sector is highly competitive. Additionally, understanding consumer behaviour in urban areas with large numbers of foreign nationals is a complex matter. As internationalisation continues borders are becoming increasingly blurred. Therefore, it is crucial for managers of grocery stores to understand potential cultural differences in terms of store choice. The survey examined the changes, if any, in store choice determinants among Germans living in Greater London compared retrospectively to when they were living in Germany. To provide a comparison, a small group of native UK consumers were also surveyed. The resulting comparison revealed some significant differences and changes in grocery store selection over time. These findings are also likely to be useful for managers in the grocery retail sector when addressing the dynamic nature of transnational mobile and connected consumer markets.

Trans Fat Information on Food Labels: Consumer Use and Interpretation

2010 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Ellis ◽  
N. Theresa Glanville
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Location ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Fat Intake ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Trans Fat ◽  
Food Label ◽  
Nutrition Facts Panel ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: Consumers’ use and interpretation of trans fat information on food labels were explored. Methods: Consumers completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire in one of three grocery stores selected purposively to represent geographical location. Data analysis involved examining the relationship of age, gender, grocery shopping habits, household size, and source of nutrition information with awareness, use, and interpretation of trans fat information. Results: Ninety-eight percent (n=239) of participants were aware of trans fat, and most knew of the relationship between trans fat intake and cardiovascular disease. Although the majority of shoppers were aware of the “0 trans fat” nutrition claim on food packages (95%), they were more likely to use the Nutrition Facts panel (60%) to reduce trans fat intake. Men and consumers under age 40 were least likely to be aware of food label information. While most consumers (75%) correctly interpreted the “0 trans fat” nutrition claim and thought foods with this claim could be healthy choices (64%), only 51% purchased these foods to reduce trans fat intake. Conclusions: Nutrition professionals should target messages to reduce trans fat intake at men and consumers under age 40. While general knowledge was good, further education is required to help consumers interpret trans fat information.

scholarly journals When Amazon ate Whole Foods: big changes for Big Food

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 615-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Phillips-Connolly ◽  
Aidan J. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Food Value

The grocery store is ground zero in the tsunami of change facing Big Food. Consumers are changing how they relate to grocery stores, increasingly circling the perimeter, focusing on produce and preferentially choosing fresh, local, and new, even unknown, brands while spending less time in the processed food aisles in the center. The next generation, the millenials, are increasingly shunning traditional outlets when buying food. Traditional leading brands of processed food, backed by traditional marketing strategies (heavy advertising on traditional media, coupons, brand extensions, etc.) are failing to hold on to their customers. The challenges can be found throughout the food value chain, from new competitors for grocery providers to new delivery mechanisms, from changes in generational food preferences with social media platforms to express their preferences to farmers who increasingly can and want to communicate directly with the end-users who actually eat the food that they produce. This access to more information opens more options (and opportunities) to buyers and suppliers all along the food value chain. Barely 100 years old, the grocery store model is becoming obsolete, and with it the organization of the food value chain must be re-written. So what does that mean for Big Food and the food supply chain? What directions can the industry take to adjust to the new competitive realities? This paper offers direction and guidance for Big Food and other producers in the food supply chain.

When Hockey Won’t Sell in Minnesota: Using Design Thinking to Innovate the Ticket Service

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (S1) ◽  
pp. S14-S17
Author(s):  
Clinton Warren
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Athletic Department ◽  
Ticket Sales ◽  
Sales And Marketing ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Spectator Attendance ◽  
The University

This case study asks students to assume the role of a ticket sales strategist hired to work as a consultant for the University of Minnesota Golden Gopher athletic department. In this case, you will be asked to work with members of the Gopher Fan Advisory Board to develop service innovations in the area of ticket sales. As a sales and marketing consultant, you will examine existing data on spectator attendance trends and focus group interviews to determine the current issues facing the athletic department. Then, you will be asked to suggest the manners by which the athletic department should innovate the ticket service, using a design thinking approach to grow ticket sales and spectator attendance for the men’s hockey program.

Patulin Surveillance in Apple Cider and Juice Marketed in Michigan

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1255-1261 ◽  
Author(s):  
KERRI L. HARRIS ◽  
GERD BOBE ◽  
LESLIE D. BOURQUIN
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Apple Juice ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Apple Cider ◽  
Shelf Stable ◽  
Retail Grocery

Patulin is the most common mycotoxin found in apples and apple juices. The objective of this study was to determine the concentrations of patulin in (i) apple cider produced and marketed by Michigan apple cider mills during the fall seasons of 2002 to 2003 and 2003 to 2004 and (ii) apple juice and cider, including shelf-stable products, marketed in retail grocery stores in Michigan throughout 2005 and 2006. End product samples (n = 493) obtained from 104 Michigan apple cider mills were analyzed for patulin concentration by using solid-phase extraction followed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Patulin was detected (≥4 μg/liter) in 18.7% of all cider mill samples, with 11 samples (2.2%) having patulin concentrations of ≥50 μg/liter. A greater percentage of cider samples obtained from mills using thermal pasteurization contained detectable patulin (28.4%) than did those from mills using UV light radiation (13.5%) or no pathogen reduction treatment (17.0%). Among retail grocery store samples (n = 159), 23% of apple juice and cider samples contained detectable patulin, with 18 samples (11.3%) having patulin concentrations of ≥50 μg/liter. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action level for patulin is 50 μg/kg. Some apple juice samples obtained from retail grocery stores had exceptionally high patulin concentrations, ranging up to 2,700 μg/liter. Collectively, these results indicate that most apple cider and juice test samples from Michigan were below the FDA action level for patulin but that certain apple cider and juice processors have inadequate controls over patulin concentrations in final products. The industry, overall, should focus on improved quality of fruit used in juice production and improve culling procedures to reduce patulin concentrations.

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