Article
Food Science & Technology
Kathryn A. Carroll, Anya Samek, Lydia Zepeda
Summary: Product bundling is a common retail marketing strategy that can increase profits in the grocery sector. Research suggests that the preference for food bundles is due to their simplicity and reduced cognitive effort, making them appealing especially to individuals who do not enjoy shopping.
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis
Summary: This study uses household panel data to analyze the impact of online grocery shopping on the healthfulness of grocery purchases, finding that online shopping tends to allocate more spending towards healthier products compared to traditional shopping methods. However, the effect on monthly aggregate basket health indicators is not significant.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Fifi Kvalsvik
Summary: This study aims to identify the situational factors that drive older adults to adopt online grocery shopping. Through qualitative research and an experiment, it is found that health, mobility issues, and distance to a store are the most important factors influencing older adults' decision to buy groceries online. The findings provide insights for online grocery retailers in designing promotional programs targeted at older adults.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2022)
Article
Urban Studies
Chathurani Vithanage, Premachandra Wattage, Shanaka Kariyawasam, Clevo Wilson, Uttam Khanal
Summary: Different retail forms play a significant role in shaping the spatial form of Sri Lankan cities. This study applies a behavioral model to determine the key drivers behind store choice decisions of grocery shoppers in a Sri Lankan city. The findings suggest that attributes of retail destinations are more important than distance in influencing where people shop.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lambert Neumayr, Christoph Moosauer
Summary: This study aimed to explore the introduction of an eco-label to enhance shoppers' awareness of food environmental friendliness, promoting sales of sustainable and organic food. The experimental results showed that the eco-label had a significant, partly subconscious effect on shoppers' choices, particularly for low-involvement shoppers.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Helena Slapo, Annechen Bahr Bugge, Ingunn Sandaker, Samira Lekhal
Summary: This study describes how the supermarket chain Kiwi used in-store interventions to increase annual sales of fruits and vegetables between 2012 and 2020. Results show that these interventions positively impacted sales, with a significant increase in vegetable sales.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Bianca C. Braga, Sean B. Cash, Katrina Sarson, Remco Chang, Ab Mosca, Norbert L. W. Wilson
Summary: Food purchase choices, influenced by food environments, can be improved by interventions in digital environments, such as gamification. In a simulated online grocery shopping experiment, participants who experienced gamification showed an increase in the nutritional quality of their shopping basket. Therefore, gamifying nutrition labels in online grocery stores may be an effective strategy to improve the nutritional quality of food choices, but further research is needed.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Helena Slapo, Annechen Bahr Bugge, Ingunn Sandaker, Samira Lekhal
Summary: This study describes how a supermarket chain increased annual sales of fruits and vegetables through in-store interventions, comparing counties with different demographic characteristics. Results showed a 34.1% increase in sales, especially for vegetables, with a moderately positive correlation between the number of overweight or obese individuals in counties and FVs sales growth.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Rachel Gillespie, Emily DeWitt, Angela C. B. Trude, Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Travis Hudson, Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves, Makenzie Barr, Alison Gustafson
Summary: This study provides insight into the perceived barriers and facilitators of online grocery shopping among SNAP-authorized retailers. The primary themes among managers offering online ordering include order fulfillment challenges, perceived customer barriers, and perceived customer benefits. Among managers at brick-and-mortar locations without online services, the major themes include thoughts on implementing online shopping, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, competition with other stores, and benefits of maintaining brick-and-mortar shopping.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Helena Slapo, Alexander Schjoll, Borge Stromgren, Ingunn Sandaker, Samira Lekhal
Summary: The study reviewed the effectiveness of in-store interventions on promoting healthier food choices, showing that pricing, pricing combined with promotion and prompting, had a significant impact on purchase behavior, especially targeting fruits and vegetables. The interventions significantly influenced sales of both healthy and unhealthy products, while also increasing sales of fruits and vegetables, healthy beverages, and overall volume of healthy products.
Article
Business
Kaili Wang, Ya Gao, Yicong Liu, Khandker Nurul Habib
Summary: This study examines individuals' choice of in-store and online grocery shopping channels through stated preference choice experiments. The results suggest that shoppers tend to exhibit myopic behaviors and prioritize in-store shopping and free delivery services. Additionally, the study reveals the importance of same-day delivery service and the impact of perceived pandemic fear on the inclusion probability of in-store grocery pick-up services. The findings highlight the heterogeneity of grocery shoppers' choice behavior within the online channel.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sejin Ha, Michelle Childs, Christopher T. Sneed, Ann Berry
Summary: This study found that positive and negative emotions, active resilience, and demographic characteristics can explain consumer shopping behavior with small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, small businesses may consider triggering active resilience and emotions in their marketing strategies to attract sustainable consumption practices among consumers, especially those who are more likely to support sustainable consumption.
Article
Management
Armin Luer-Villagra, Vladimir Marianov, H. A. Eiselt, Gonzalo Mendez-Vogel
Summary: This paper investigates the decision-making of followers and leaders in the context of retail store location problem, and proposes exact and approximated procedures for solving it. The findings suggest that by strategically selecting locations, the first entrant can increase the total business in the area.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Yang Li, Kunpeng Li, Amir Gharehgozli
Summary: The purpose of this study is to assist online grocery retailers in determining the most effective return and refund policies for perishable grocery items. The findings demonstrate that a more generous refund policy should be implemented for products with higher profit margins, significant negative impacts on consumer satisfaction, and high costs associated with product returns. Additionally, it is optimal to not require product return when consumer's return costs and product return rates exceed certain thresholds.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Klaus L. Fuchs, Jie Lian, Leonard Michels, Simon Mayer, Enrico Toniato, Verena Tiefenbeck
Summary: Research shows that introducing digital front-of-package labels (FoPL) in online supermarkets can effectively support consumers in choosing products with higher nutritional quality. Digital FoPL provides scalable and personalized interventions, making them well-suited for the current trend of online shopping. Users with low food literacy benefit the most from digital FoPL. Furthermore, participants show strong support for the introduction of digital food labels.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Joyce De Temmerman, Eva Heeremans, Hendrik Slabbinck, Iris Vermeir
Summary: The Nutri-Score is found to be a helpful tool in enabling consumers to better evaluate the healthiness of products and potentially increase sales of healthy products. Consumers' perceived healthiness plays a mediating role in the relationship between Nutri-Score categories and purchase intentions, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the healthiness of products for competitive advantage.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Joachim J. Schouteten, Xavier Gellynck, Hendrik Slabbinck
Summary: The study found that Fair Trade labels can increase consumers' overall liking and willingness-to-pay for products, but have little effect on calorie estimations. Results from sensory lab and home tests were highly similar, indicating that the evaluation context has little impact on the labelling effect.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Eva Meersseman, Iris Vermeir, Maggie Geuens
Summary: Consumers are more accustomed to seeing their food from a diner's eye perspective in food pictures, and when viewing top perspective images, they show decreased need for instant gratification and tend to choose less unhealthy food.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag, Iris Vermeir, Carmen Roba, Dacinia Crina Petrescu, Nicoleta Bican-Brisan, Ildiko Melinda Martonos
Summary: The global consumption of herbal supplements is increasing, leading to a thriving food supplement industry and heightened consumer awareness of health risks. Research shows that herbal supplements may contain toxic residues, highlighting the importance of consumer awareness of consumption risks.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Lana Mulier, Eva Meersseman, Iris Vermeir, Hendrik Slabbinck
Summary: The study found that implied motion does not significantly impact food perceptions, regardless of healthiness of the food. Previous research has mostly focused on unhealthy foods, lacking experiments on healthy foods.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Eva Meersseman, Maggie Geuens, Iris Vermeir
Summary: The study discovered that food pictures with a bite can decrease consumers' purchase intentions and this effect is mediated by feelings of disgust. The impact of food pictures differed based on context, with advertisements potentially attenuating the negative effects.
Article
Business
Gudrun Roose, Iris Vermeir
Summary: This study aims to investigate the effects of spatial product presentation cues on consumer decision-making and provides a taxonomy, review, research agenda, and key takeaways for practitioners. The importance of this study lies in guiding practitioners and researchers to understand the impact of spatial product presentation cues on consumer decisions.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Business
Julie Verstraeten, Eva Heeremans, Maggie Geuens, Iris Vermeir
Summary: Private labels (PL) have gained popularity globally, with consumers increasingly shifting from traditional grocery shopping to online shopping. When shopping for groceries online, consumers rely less on external product cues (price, brand name, and packaging) and perceive a smaller quality gap between PL and national brand (NB) products, leading to higher PL sales. These findings have implications for academics, retailers, manufacturers, and consumers.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Lana Mulier, Hendrik Slabbinck, Iris Vermeir
Summary: This study examines the emotional and behavioural effects of looming threats using both recalled valence and real-time facial expressions. The results show that looming threats elicit more negative facial expressions compared to receding threats. Furthermore, more threatening stimuli evoke more negative facial expressions, but only in the context of looming threats.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Jolien Vandenbroele, Hendrik Slabbinck, Anneleen Van Kerckhove, Iris Vermeir
Summary: Placing meat substitutes next to meat products in a butchery increases their visibility and offering them in pairs with their meat-based counterparts enhances sales, without causing a significant increase in meat product sales. Both product visibility and pairwise presentation were found to increase sales of meat substitutes, with fewer substitutes sold in pairwise presentation when visibility is high.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
(2021)
Article
Business
Radityo Putro Handrito, Hendrik Slabbinck, Johanna Vanderstraeten
Summary: The increased environmental problems caused by business activities have put pressure on entrepreneurs to implement pro-environmental policies within their businesses. However, studies show that SMEs are less engaged with sustainable and pro-environmental policies. Understanding the barriers and drivers of implementing a pro-environmental strategy in SMEs is crucial, with a study finding that environmental sustainability orientation is driven by an entrepreneur's power motives. High levels of SME's environmental sustainability orientation are affected by power motive discrepancy, as revealed through polynomial regression with surface analysis. Recommendations for policymakers, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial education programs are discussed.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Saskia Crucke, Hendrik Slabbinck
Summary: The sharing economy is still in its infancy and a key challenge is attracting new users. Research shows that open sharing communities are more attractive than closed sharing communities as they build trust and alleviate perceived scarcity risk. Social and environmental orientation increases the likelihood of joining open sharing communities, but not closed sharing organizations.
ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Terhi Pohjanheimo, Pauliina Ojansivu, Anu Hopia
Summary: The surrounding environment plays a significant role in well-being and behavior, and the sensory experience of a place has not been systematically measured and characterized. The current study developed the Sensory Walk Questionnaire and tested it in a restaurant environment. The results showed differences in perceived odour and sound intensity, pleasantness of odours, sounds, and visual environment, as well as sensory descriptors between different areas in the restaurant.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2024)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Dae Hee Chung, Doo Bong Han, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr, Sang Hyeon Lee
Summary: This study investigates the effects of calorie-related information on food choices and reveals that presenting either daily calorie recommendations or specific calorie information can reduce consumers' calorie consumption. However, when both types of information are presented concurrently, this effect is nullified. The study also finds that personality traits, such as extroversion and self-esteem, influence food choices, with extroverts more likely to choose lower-calorie options. Good self-restraint is also linked to lower-calorie choices. These findings highlight the importance of strategic calorie information policies in promoting healthier choices.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2024)
Article
Food Science & Technology
C. Rorandelli, A. Lippi, S. Spinelli, L. Pierguidi, E. Monteleone, C. Dinnella
Summary: This study aimed to validate a protocol for assessing PROP status in remote conditions and to compare the results obtained using solutions and paper disks. The results showed that PROP ratings did not vary across remote and lab conditions. The classification in remote-solution and lab-disk conditions was comparable to the lab-solution reference condition, while the classification in remote-disk condition was not fully comparable.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2024)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Sule Kocabas, Nevin Sanlier
Summary: This study explored how the disgust emotion affected adults' obsession with healthy eating. The results showed that women exhibited higher disgust tendencies than men, and men had a lower tendency toward healthy eating obsession. There was a negative correlation between BMI and disgust propensity and sensitivity. People's disgust propensity and obsession with healthy eating increased with age.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2024)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Valentina Maria Merlino, Oriana Mosca, Ferdinando Fornara, Rocco Roma, Elisabetta Bonerba, Achille Schiavone, Rosa Laura Passaro, Martina Tarantola
Summary: This research explores the impact of key socio-psychological dimensions on individuals' intention to eat insect-based foods. The findings indicate that individuals with higher concern for environmental and ethical sustainability are more open to eating insects, particularly if they are treated ethically. The integrated attitude-food-intention model used in this study represents an innovative approach in consumer behavior research.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2024)