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Nudging customers towards healthier food and beverage purchases in an online supermarket

Nudging customers towards healthier food and beverage purchases in a real-life online supermarket: a multi-arm randomized controlled trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN10491616
Enrollment
22000
Registered
2021-05-26
Start date
2020-08-15
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-02-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Promoting healthier food and beverage purchases among the general population Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Interventions

Randomization is concealed as supermarket employees conduct the randomization and allocation of customers to one of the trial arms in a software system name Blueconic (Blueconic. Customer data platfor

Sponsors

VU University Medical Center
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All customers placing a delivery order (i.e., shops) in a real-life online supermarket between mid-August until mid-September 2020

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Shops reflecting an average household grocery shopping pattern are included in the analysis. Therefore, all business-related customers, and customers who purchased >90% of products in their shop from alcohol, other foods, and snacks, are excluded from the analysis.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The total percentage of healthy purchases per individual shop measured using customer sales data based on the total weight of products purchased during the 5-week study period.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Secondary outcome measure: Total percentage of healthy purchases within 19 food groups per individual shop measured using customer sales data based on the total weight of products purchased during the 5-week study period Tertiary outcome measure: Total retailer revenue measured using customer sales data based on the total amount of Euros spent during the 5-week study period

Countries

Netherlands

Contacts

Public ContactJosine Stuber
j.stuber@amsterdamumc.nl+31 (0)204445830

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 19, 2026