Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health 151
Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters is reporting that the trend toward online shopping is reducing the sales of impulse-purchase items, most notably candy and snacks often displayed at the checkout counter. As even grocery shopping shifts online, junk food producers are feeling the squeeze. From the article: 'Anthony Hopper, chief executive of advertising agency Lowe Open, said brands need to change how people buy chocolate, but acknowledges that it won't be easy. "If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you that it's actually better value to buy a pack of four when you're doing your next online shop? It's a long-term strategy," he said.'"
Re:Or, maybe (Score:5, Informative)
I've asked said people what they think of ascorbic acid [wikipedia.org], to which most of them effectively say they'd avoid anything containing it. Not a very good idea to completely shut out one of the most important amino acids from your diet. [wikipedia.org]
Would you please show me the amino (NH2) group specific to aminoacids in the C6H8O6 molecula formula of the ascorbic acid?
Cadbury Dairy Milk... (Score:5, Informative)
"If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you that it's actually better value to buy a pack of four when you're doing your next online shop? It's a long-term strategy,"
If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you to try some decent chocolate.
Re:Or, maybe (Score:4, Informative)
A truck driving friend of mine once sent me a photo of his delivery - pallets full of pharmaceuticals being delivered to a breakfast cereal plant in time for the sticky kids cereal batch run. The cereal box says "fortified with iron and vitamins". Why not just have the HEALTHY and NATURAL option of bran and sliced fruit? That's good for your colon, heart and tastebuds. Why? Because the advertising industry is employed by these food companies to brainwash kids (and apparently people like you) into believing this processed sticky shit is somehow healthy.
Re:Or, maybe (Score:5, Informative)
Even if it was, does the source of information make it any less true?
No, but the fact that ascorbic acid isn't an amino acid [slashdot.org] makes
sound, at best, like an odd combination of two sentences talking about different unrelated things.
Re:will it help against impluse eating? (Score:2, Informative)
Sorry. Cadbury is way worse. We actually have Cadbury quality chocolate here in the US. It is basically sold only around Easter when people care more about the shape of the chocolate than the taste. We refer to it as crappy Easter chocolate.
That stuff is better described as "chocolate-flavored wax".
And to the GP, just FYI chocolate is from the Americas, we've actually got the best stuff on the planet. But also the worst.
Re:will it help against impluse eating? (Score:4, Informative)
I think if you're taking marketing advice form someone who says "when you're doing your next online shop" you've already lost.
Re:will it help against impluse eating? (Score:4, Informative)