Featured campaign: Keep soda in the soda aisle
You wouldn’t expect to see candy in the produce section. So why are sugary beverages like soda, punches, lemonades, and sports drinks found in an average of 30 different places throughout the grocery store?
Fact sheet: Soda on display
Big Soda pays big money to maximize customer exposure to their products.
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Video: Consumers want healthier grocery stores
Eighty-two percent of consumers surveyed think grocery stores should promote healthier items.
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Video: Healthy grocery stores sustain families
Grocery store promotions and placements usually don't support health. But they could and should.
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Keep soda in the soda aisle
Consumption of excess sugar is linked to diabetes and heart disease, yet soda and other sugary beverages can be found all around us at the grocery store—in nearly 30 locations on average.
The latest
Biden administration national strategy endorses front-of-package labeling, healthy school meals for all
Legislation warning consumers of chain restaurant menu items with more than a day’s worth of sugar is reintroduced in NYC City Council
An interview with Sheylin De Leon, Oakland HOPS Youth Advocate
New federal investigation looks into grocery industry marketing practices
New York City passes the Sweet Truth Act, requiring warnings on chain restaurants' prepackaged foods and drinks that are high in added sugars
Making the case
Why do we need healthy retail policies? CSPI's reports on aggressive junk food marketing and unfair business practices can help make the case for a policy in your community.
Want to introduce a healthy retail policy in your community?
If you are an advocate, retailer, or local health department and would like technical assistance with introducing and implementing healthy retail policies in your community, please contact us at policy@cspinet.org.
Our team
Sara John, PhD
Senior Policy Scientist
Karen Gardner
Senior Policy Associate
Fact Sheets
- How grocery store agreements impact public health demonstrates the impact of manufacturers’ trade promotion fees on public health.
- In-Store Marketing Induces Impulse Buys details how in-store marketing drives unhealthy product purchases.
- The rise of dollar stores: How the proliferation of discount stores may limit healthy food access describes the public health implications of dollar stores and offers strategies communities can use to increase healthy food access.
- Why healthy checkout? makes an evidence-based case for why food stores should rethink checkout.
- Messaging guidance for an effective healthier grocery experience campaign lays out key messaging takeaways from public opinion research commissioned by CSPI.
- Messaging guidance for an effective healthier grocery experience campaign Messaging guidance for an effective healthier grocery experience campaign lays out key messaging takeaways from public opinion research commissioned by CSPI.
- Consumer perceptions of retail checkout shares results from a national poll that found that shoppers want supermarkets to do more to support their health and to implement healthy checkout.
- The nagging question demonstrates the impact of children's pester power on parent's food choices in the grocery store.
- U.K. retailers rethink checkout describes how consumer advocacy across the pond prompted nine retailers—comprising 90% of the U.K.'s food retail market—to make checkout pledges that support healthier eating.