This amazed me no end this morning

[witch]

Just struck me that in supermarkets the sweets are at the level of a child sitting in a trolley, in the smaller stores they are at a lower level, right about where a child sits in a pushchair. The swines!

 

No....really? Wow! Who would have thought it

[GREED]

There is a whole science to merchandising. Interesting if you to know how we are subconsciously conned!

[SiliconAlley_Sam]

Really hope Morissons jump on the bandwagon and move the enormous chocolate display away from the self service check-out, makes every lunch time a battle for self-control.

[sparkeh]

No....really? Wow! Who would have thought it

Ok ok

 

Of course I understand that supermarkets use tactics to get us to buy more stuff but I guess only recently having a child I didn't think about how blatant the targeting of children to pester their parents to buy unhealthy food really is.

[LeMarchand]

It says somewhere in that article that their larger stores don't have sweets at the tills anyway.

 

I read the headline this morning and was confused, as in the last decade(?) I've only seen sweeties on the counter at the local M&S; that explains it.

 

When i was younger my parents used to shop at lidl's, and you're right, the food isn't that bad, but god don't the other kids notice if you have an Orange juice carton by Solevita rather than a carton of ribena, and any other 'imitation' brands that are really not much different, it was a ridiculing point at our school.

 

most of their food is good, but some of it is god damn awful, i have memories of some sweet and sour chicken we bought from there, and it was just horrendous, so it can be a bit of a gamble, but as mentioned, milk bread etc are generally all the same.

 

I find this, too. Most of the stuff = fine, but some of it is rank. Maybe the flavours are slanted more towards "European" expectations?

[CAM]

I never noticed that Tesco stopped selling sweets at tills in larger stores 20 years ago!

[Iain.Faulkner]

I never noticed that Tesco stopped selling sweets at tills in larger stores 20 years ago!

 

Me neither :-)

[Heebeejeebee]

I'm ok with sweets being there - I never really got pestered to buy and I have enough willpower not to pick things up for myself even if tempted to do so.

 

What I really want at the checkouts are all the things I've forgotten to get whilst walking around the store in the first place That's why I love online shopping - no temptation, no impulse buying and saves a fortune.

 

HBJB

[Quackers]

Rather annoying article and action. First off there are no 'healthy' foods. Their are Healthy and Unhealthy diets. (My health would be dire if i only ate Apples and nothing but, yet I'm sure Apples would be in the healthy food category) People are overweight because they are consuming more energy then they need, wether that energy comes from an apple, carrot, slice of bread or a chocolate bar, consistently consume more than your body requires and you will gain weight. Thats where the obesity problem has come from as we don't need anywhere near as much energy as we did as we drive everywhere now and a lot of people will not even walk across the car park to the supermarket doors and circle the first few rows of the car park trying to close as park to the door as possible they are so bone idle.

 

Attacking the industry that makes treats is not going to solve the problem, if you ever watch Super Fat vs Super Skinny on Channel 4 you will often see the stick thin person living off sweets, normal pop, and biscuits and rarely eating any food of good nutritional value, they have shit skin as a result because there health is bad, but it proves the point that that so called 'junk food' does not make you over weight.

 

Don't even get me started on diets or diet clubs like Slimming World or Weight Watchers they are more dangerous than smoking to the nations health, luckily after spending most of my life overweight and being brainwashed by the diet industry and diet clubs (yes i was stupid enough to go to Slimming world at some point) i finally woke up to it all and am now the lightest and thinest i have ever been in my adult life and i have normal coke now (not that diet, low sugar crap full of artificial sweeteners), consume chocolate when i want and don't feel guilty for it i have mcdonalds and takeaways and don't feel like i cheated, down from 19st to 12st in 2.5 years, and from 42" to 33" waist.

 

Nothing winds me up like news/articles like this one, as it re-enforces whats wrong with the whole diet mentality and what kept me over weight for years.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Quackers

[Gibbo]

It might be considered cruel, but when my child was young I gave her the option to try some of my very bitter dark chocolate, which she didn't like. I told her that all chocolate tasted the same (except for chocolate covered raisins which were an occasional treat), therefore no tantrums at the checkout.

[LeMarchand]

Don't even get me started on diets or diet clubs like Slimming World or Weight Watchers they are more dangerous than smoking to the nations health

 

Possibly a bit unfair to WW (don't know about SW). Stepdaughter #2 is on WW and it seems to be a case of balancing your food intake with your energy expenditure. I do try to cook a bit more "healthily" when she is about (no bad thing, really - and we don't eat loads of rubbish anyway) but she just eats "sensibly". I.E. if she wants chocolate, she knows that she should have put in some sort of exercise to "pay" for it.