Promoting healthy choices from vending machines: Effectiveness and consumer evaluations of four types of interventions

Colin Bos, Ivo A. van der Lans, Ellen van Kleef and Hans C.M. van Trijp

Food Policy, 2018, vol. 79, issue C, 247-255

Abstract: Vending machines often provide relatively energy-dense snack foods and beverages at a wide variety of points-of-purchase. Vending-machine interventions that stimulate low-calorie choices can therefore play a role in improving the healthfulness of the food environment landscape. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of four vending-machine interventions, varying in level of intrusiveness, on consumers’ choices, consumers’ acceptance of such interventions, and consumers’ evaluations of the choice they made.

Keywords: Intervention intrusiveness; Effectiveness; Acceptance; Choice evaluation; Food choice; Vending machine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.07.001

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