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Obesity warnings on supermarket till receipts

PHE are clutching at straws if they think putting obesity warnings on till receipts will make a big difference in people's eating habits.
 
So what's the next step?

Change the muzak to a continuous loop of "Hey Fatty Bum Bum" and "Big Bottomed Girls " ?:rolleyes:

Signy
 
You need the warning going in, not coming out when you have already bought the stuff!
 
Public Health England have been using data from our shopping habits for a long time.

Using supermarket consumer data for public health:Novel findings using loyalty card data.

http://em.hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl...onsumer-Data-for-Public-Health-Tom-Fowler.pdf

We are even categorised into different groups depending on our income, age, postcode, marital status etc....


Mission

To help farmers and small food producers improve their businesses by developing a better understanding of consumer preferences and purchasing behaviour.

Tesco and Society: Our Three Big Ambitions - Improving Health

Consumer insight and data – using it to help customers make healthier choices:

Health motivator: “we will share more of our Clubcard data with our customers so they can understand how their shopping impacts their health”

Data donation: “we will explore ways that we can help research and health professionals to access the anonymised information we have about our customers in order to facilitate research projects”

Big Brother is watching you and the data is being collected.
 
The Mail, they do love a good joke don't they. Even the supermarkets weren't aware of the idea. Sorry to be boring, but as a retired IT person, I can see that the checkout system would have to contain all the nutritional values as well and then be able to tot it all up, it would also have to consider the number of items as well because any limits they might have (who decides on that?) would have to consider how many items. My opinion, even if it's worth nothing, The Mail are having a laugh. Neat idea though, shame very few of us look at our till receipts these days.
 
I realised Tesco were trying to improve my health earlier this when I went to buy some Hot-X buns. No, they were no longer doing wholemeal ones (Sainsbury's did) but they were now doing X-buns filled with either golden syrup or chocolate as well as plain white flour ones. I assume the syrup and chocolate were low sugar......
 
if the doctors dont know what healthy eating is i assume the supermarkets will be following them in giving out ridiculous advice
 
I'm trying to imagine how I would react to an 'obesity warning' appearing on my receipt...

Would it make me switch to another shop, or would I laugh?

The problem is that, according to @catherinecherub 's link, potatoes, canned fruit and dried fruit are considered 'healthy choices' while choc bars and sausages are 'unhealthy'.

So obviously only eating berry-fruit, avoiding potatoes (last bought in 1992), snaffling 70% choc and 97% meat sausages are going to doom me to a till receipt that wags a censoring finger at me.

Gosh, I must mend my ways immediately! Perhaps it would help if I dressed in sack cloth, and rolled in ashes? Or is that contravening some health and safety rule?
 
graj0 said:
The Mail, they do love a good joke don't they. Even the supermarkets weren't aware of the idea. Sorry to be boring, but as a retired IT person, I can see that the checkout system would have to contain all the nutritional values as well and then be able to tot it all up, it would also have to consider the number of items as well because any limits they might have (who decides on that?) would have to consider how many items. My opinion, even if it's worth nothing, The Mail are having a laugh. Neat idea though, shame very few of us look at our till receipts these days.
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Not boring at all... :cool:
Food stuffs could be just put into vague nutritional categories (like point rating?) as part of the bar code system which is used as part of the stock control anyway... Probably adjusted at source on the database along with the item pricing...?
This could exclude items such a cleaning sundries and clothing... Though I wouldn't be surprised if larger items of clothing scan as a "red light item"... ;)
I used to work for a well known food chain....
 
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....We'll be told soon how many sheets of toilet roll we should be using...
 
We don't even always have reipts here in Canada if you choose a digital payment method you tap your phone and get a digital bill/respit depending on location you shop at and what system/program they are using. McDonalds you tap n only if you ask do you get a bill (even grocery shopping today the check out computer asked digital or paper bill - just tapped the phone and got the digital)
 
Pollylocks said:
....We'll be told soon how many sheets of toilet roll we should be using...
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One of my old mates did his apprenticeship at the Admiralty Labs in Teddington back in the '70s. There were signs telling them to only use a certain number of sheets, but no way of enforcing the recommendations. Evidently his union spent hours arguing with management about the stupidity of the signs and their recommendations. Bring your own started to have a whole new meaning in those days. LOL
 
Think of all the additional paper that Tesco and Asda would end up using. The 'green' lobby would be up in arms. ;) And the government would then probably add another 5p 'bag tax' on receipts because we're using too much paper.
 
Might be a 'man' thing but I never look at a till receipt, goes straight in the bin when leaving the shop.
 
noblehead said:
Might be a 'man' thing but I never look at a till receipt, goes straight in the bin when leaving the shop.
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Not 'my' man. Nigel, all the receipts get entered into an excel spread sheet (with updated exchange rates ) but I doubt if he'd take any notice of an obesity warning
It's a silly idea in any case , not just because people won't take any notice but also because what people buy at any one supermarket isn't necessarily representative of their whole diet. (they may eat out a lot or do as I do and buy veg/fruit at the market and they may have some weeks when they take advantage of something cheaper to stock up on ; horror of horror, just after Christmas we buy lots of duck including breasts, legs and even duck fat to confit the legs because in the Summer when we have visitors they will be very much more expensive.
 
phoenix said:
Not 'my' man. Nigel, all the receipts get entered into an excel spread sheet (with updated exchange rates ) but I doubt if he'd take any notice of an obesity warning
It's a silly idea in any case , not just because people won't take any notice but also because what people buy at any one supermarket isn't necessarily representative of their whole diet. (they may eat out a lot or do as I do and buy veg/fruit at the market and they may have some weeks when they take advantage of something cheaper to stock up on ; horror of horror, just after Christmas we buy lots of duck including breasts, legs and even duck fat to confit the legs because in the Summer when we have visitors they will be very much more expensive.
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Good points Phoenix. We go in a few shops to buy selected items as they are cheaper than other places where we shop, as you say it's a silly idea and can't see it having much effect.

Your man is OTT by the way ;) ..............................my wife scrutinises till receipts to make sure any reduced items go through at the appropriate price, she gets annoyed with me as I just chuck them in the bin.....lol
 
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