Walmart Starting To Sell Healthier Food

Today while browsing Google news, I found a topic that really caught my eye, a news article on the worlds largest superstore starting to carry healthier food, and its all a part of Walmart’s recent “Pledge to start selling healthier food” this is a five step process that they have towards meeting there healthier food goals, some of these goals include “making healthier choices more affordable” and “ providing solutions to address food deserts by building stores”. (A food desert is when a Wal-Mart  has little or no access to affordable nutritious food) Wal-Mart will start placing a label on the front label on product packaging. There is a great video on this Walmart’s stand on this issue. (http://walmartstores.com/pressroom/news/10818.aspx)

This is great news and I must say I am happy to see Wal-Mart taking such a healthy stand on its grocery industry. Wal-Mart is the largest superstore in the country, and millions of people shop there. Putting healthier food on Wal-Mart shelves essentially will have the American people eating healthier. Someone shopping at Wal-Mart for their groceries in my opinion is going to substitute what they can only get at Wal-Mart, why drive to another supermarket to get something when Wal-Mart has a close second or third brand to the one you initially wanted? What I’m getting at is that people buy items at Wal-Mart because that’s where there are and its all their shopping in once place they don’t want to waste gas driving to another store.. Customers in my opinion will love this new healthy food stance Wal-Mart is taking, what are your opinions on Wal-Marts new healthy food stance?

Radcliffe Shawn, Men’s Fitness http://walmartstores.com/nutrition/?sourceid=healthierfoods