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From small to nutritious: Can retailers lead a healthy food revolution?

Retailers have significant influence over whether the food that consumers face is nutritious, safe, available, affordable or attractive.

In this blog for the Consumer Goods Forum, Lawrence Haddad challenges public and private sectors to rethink how retailers can use their position and influence to make nutritious foods more available and affordable:

The word “retail” was first recorded as a noun in the 1400s with the meaning of “sale in small quantities”.  Now is the time to redefine the word “retail” as “sale in nutritious quantities”.  That is a challenge to retailers, but it is also a challenge to the rest of us who want... to improve the consumption of nutritious food for all.  We need the ultimate “two for one” offer: when public and private sectors come together to make it easier for everyone to acquire a nutritious diet. 

Read the full blog here: From small to nutritious: Can retailers lead a healthy food revolution?