Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices
Visual cues are omnipresent in an in-store environment and can enhance the visibility of a product. By using these visual cues, policy makers can design a choice environment to nudge consumers towards more sustainable consumer behavior. In this study, we use a combined nudge of display area size and...
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| author | Nicky Coucke Iris Vermeir Hendrik Slabbinck Anneleen Van Kerckhove |
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| description | Visual cues are omnipresent in an in-store environment and can enhance the visibility of a product. By using these visual cues, policy makers can design a choice environment to nudge consumers towards more sustainable consumer behavior. In this study, we use a combined nudge of display area size and quantity of displayed products to nudge consumers towards more sustainable meat choices. We performed a field experiment of four weeks in a butchery, located in a supermarket. The size of the display area and quantity of displayed poultry products, serving as the nudging intervention, were increased, whereas these were decreased for less sustainable meat products. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our nudging intervention, we also collected data from a control store and performed a pre-and post-intervention measurement. We kept records of the sales data of the sold meat (amount of weight & revenue). When conducting a three-way ANOVA and post hoc contrast tests, we found that the sales of poultry increased during the nudging intervention, but did not decrease for less sustainable meat products. When removing the nudge again, the sales of poultry decreased again significantly in the experimental store. Changing the size of display area and the amount of products displayed in this display area created a shift in the consumers’ purchase behavior of meat. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74f6b4d1b3bd43d0bca26b42bc7980412022-12-22T00:12:37ZengMDPI AGFoods2304-81582019-05-018618610.3390/foods8060186foods8060186Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food ChoicesNicky Coucke0Iris Vermeir1Hendrik Slabbinck2Anneleen Van Kerckhove3BE4LIFE, Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, BelgiumBE4LIFE, Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, BelgiumBE4LIFE, Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, BelgiumBE4LIFE, Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, BelgiumVisual cues are omnipresent in an in-store environment and can enhance the visibility of a product. By using these visual cues, policy makers can design a choice environment to nudge consumers towards more sustainable consumer behavior. In this study, we use a combined nudge of display area size and quantity of displayed products to nudge consumers towards more sustainable meat choices. We performed a field experiment of four weeks in a butchery, located in a supermarket. The size of the display area and quantity of displayed poultry products, serving as the nudging intervention, were increased, whereas these were decreased for less sustainable meat products. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our nudging intervention, we also collected data from a control store and performed a pre-and post-intervention measurement. We kept records of the sales data of the sold meat (amount of weight & revenue). When conducting a three-way ANOVA and post hoc contrast tests, we found that the sales of poultry increased during the nudging intervention, but did not decrease for less sustainable meat products. When removing the nudge again, the sales of poultry decreased again significantly in the experimental store. Changing the size of display area and the amount of products displayed in this display area created a shift in the consumers’ purchase behavior of meat.https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/8/6/186choice architecturesensory nudgesvisual cuessustainable consumer behaviordisplay area sizequantity of displayed productsvisibility |
| spellingShingle | Nicky Coucke Iris Vermeir Hendrik Slabbinck Anneleen Van Kerckhove Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices Foods choice architecture sensory nudges visual cues sustainable consumer behavior display area size quantity of displayed products visibility |
| title | Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices |
| title_full | Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices |
| title_fullStr | Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices |
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| title_short | Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices |
| title_sort | show me more the influence of visibility on sustainable food choices |
| topic | choice architecture sensory nudges visual cues sustainable consumer behavior display area size quantity of displayed products visibility |
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