NIH R01 · 2025
Impact of a Healthy Checkout Policy on Healthfulness of Grocery Environments and Sales
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The nation’s first healthy checkout policy was implemented in Berkeley, CA in 2021 and will be enforced in 2022, presenting an opportunity to understand policy effects on diet quality. This policy prohibits high-sugar and high-sodium products from checkouts, an area known for impulse purchasing. By potentially lowering consumption of sugary beverages, sweets, and salty snacks—the most common items at checkout—this policy could reduce population risk of obesity and types 2 diabetes. Voluntary checkout standards adopted in other countries have successfully decreased purchases of unhealthy foods and beverages and increased purchases of healthy ones, indicating that a…
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