Vice or virtue: How shopping frequency affects healthfulness of food choices

Jeta Rudi and Metin Çakır

Food Policy, 2017, vol. 69, issue C, 207-217

Abstract: •We investigate the impact of grocery shopping frequency on the healthfulness of food purchases.•We use food-purchase data from a panel of American households in the empirical analyses.•We find that shopping frequency has a negative and significant effect on healthfulness of food purchases.•We also find that consumers spend relatively more on temptation foods as they shop more frequently.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.04.007

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