Aldi, Tesco and Sainsbury's Set to Introduce Major Change to Store Layouts Amid Obesity Crackdown

This is Money ^ | 1 July 2025 | Angharad Carrick

[nickcarraway]

Supermarkets will reportedly be required to make significant changes to their stores as part of a government crackdown on obesity.

The Government plans to introduce a health food standard for supermarkets to make the average shopping basket 'slightly healthier' and ease pressure on the NHS.

Public health experts say that cutting 50 calories a day would lift 340,000 children and 2 million adults out of obesity, which is one of the root causes of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Major supermarkets will have to report on healthy food sales and 'increase the healthiness of sales in communities across the UK', according to the Department of Health and Social Care.

This means that they may have to reformulate products, change the layout of stores, offer discounts on healthy foods, or change loyalty schemes to promote healthier options.

Wes Streeting, health and social care secretary said: 'Our brilliant supermarkets already do so much work for our communities and are trying to make their stores healthier, and we want to work with them and other businesses to create a level playing field.

'Through our new healthy food standard, we will make the healthy choice the easy choice, because prevention is better than cure.'

He told Sky News that the plans were not 'nanny statism' but a 'world-first approach'.

The health department said that many supermarkets 'want to do more to make the average shopping basket healthier, but they risk changes hitting their bottom lines if their competitors don't act at the same time.

'The new standard will introduce a level playing field, so there isn't a first mover disadvantage.'

It is the latest attempt by central government to push supermarkets into promoting healthy food.

In 2022, supermarkets were banned from displaying products high in fat, salt and sugar in shop entrances and till areas.

A ban on junk food adverts targeting children, which was due to be introduced in October, is set to be delayed until next year.

Research by Which? Shows that three in five consumers said they support the Government introduced health targets for supermarkets.

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Ken Murphy, Tesco chief executive, said the supermarket giant had called for 'mandatory reporting for all supermarkets and major food businesses and why we welcome the Government's announcement on this.

'We look forward to working with them on the detail of the Healthy Food Standard and its implementation by all relevant food businesses.'

Simon Roberts, chief executive of Sainsbury's added: '[The] announcement from Government is an important and positive step forward in helping the nation to eat well.

'We need a level playing field across the entirety of our food sector for these actions to have a real and lasting impact.'

[jacknhoo]

“This means that they may have to reformulate products, change the layout of stores, offer discounts on healthy foods, or change loyalty schemes to promote healthier options.”

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And if they don’t, how are they punished?

[frank ballenger]

Funny lawsuit a few years ago was brought to court by a woman who said she ate the food companies various “diet” items, “low fat” “low calorie” “Weight Watchers” “Dr. Praeger” “Jenny Craig” and “Atkins” type foods for years and years and did not lose weight.
The judge declared it was “not a serious matter” and dismissed the case.

If you think about it, she was right. Even with exercycles, jogging, weights and so on, and eating the “diet” foods, most people quickly gain back their old fat each time anyway.
The PBS special The Truth About Fat was terribly depressing. Even the famous Biggest Loser victors were interviews 2 or 3 years later and were dangerously obese.

The human body is trying to “help” us by saving our lives if there is an ice age again. The fat ancestors survived to have children in the old ice ages and we carry their genes.

[ChildOfThe60s]

If, as the article claims, three out of five people think this is a good idea, why don’t they regulate themselves?

When you get right down to it with they are saying is they want the government and the stores to tell them not to buy the stuff that they could voluntarily refrain from buying.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s a Limey thing. You wouldn’t understand. 🤡

[shaggy eel]

,,, now watch beef and other proteins face a demise in supermarkets, in line with the WEF agenda. It won’t be immediate but it’s in play.

[frank ballenger]

why do stores carry them

Money talks. Nobody walks.

McDonald's had a healthy patty burger offered with a tiny trace of "seaweed" extract. People laughed over the seaweed burgers and didn't buy them. Also rejected were several healthy salads at Mcdonald's which they couldn't afford to keep throwing in the garbage. The problem as usual is with the people.

[shaggy eel]

Obese shoppers can’t fit through to get food until they’re thin enough.

,,, or they can use online shop and delivery services run by the supermarkets - often in electric vans. No need to move from the sofa.

[EvilCapitalist]

A Welsh name. Female I believe. Maureen O’Hara played a “Angharad” in the movie “How Green was my Valley.”

[PAR35]

The English didn’t end food rationing until 1954. Defeated and overrun West Germany ended food rationing in 1950. So control of food has always been strong in England.

[Fungi]

You are correct. The “problem” is freedom. Just look at Genesis and the wrong decision due to a snake and a woman.

[SaveFerris]

🔝🔝🔝

More Nanny State Idiocy

Now, will that be Right Hand?

Or Forehead?

This noose is going to keep on tightening at the national level in every country - it will definitely have its act together for the New World Order of Daniel 7:23

They ARE going to control the masses by:

1) Controlling access to your MONEY
2) Controlling access to your FOOD

There will be NO WAY to escape this.
They will force you to use a
National Digital Currency too
- no cash eventually (DEMOCRAT JOE BIDEN EO 14067)

I can only pray 🙏🙏🙏 that it gets SHARED all over the WORLD 🌎🌏🌍 before Satan's goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐 make it nigh-impossible to share the Word of God.







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[SaveFerris]

(So CONTROL of FOOD )

This is key 🗝️

Lock 🔒🔒🔒 down the masses

CONTROL 🛂🛂🛂 - CONDITIONING

Easier to see the University Palm Print Scanner (in action)
with this one (will some buffets install similar?)

NOTE the label on the Palm Print Scanner:

DARTMOUTH DINING (Hall)

(The Class of 1953 Commons)

[CodeToad]

Old advice. They now put all the healthier stuff in the middle and junk foods on the ends.

[b4me]

Brazil nuts, the selenium helps thyroid. Also fix your bacteria in your gut and it helps your thyroid function better. I was diagnosed hoshimotos thyroiditis. IF I get my sleep, and eat well to keep my gut bacteria healthy ( Brazil nuts etc etc ) I lose weight. IF I say my thryoid is attacking my body (hoshimotos) and wont let me lose weight then I easily make excuses to go off track. plenty of good videos online about managing thyroid issues and still being able to lose weight with, or without Rx and not huge amounts of exercise either.

A compromised gut, not functioning right, is at the root of most things.

[Sacajaweau]

Aldi....first you go by the vegies....then the bread on the left and the chips and crap on the right...Milk and eggs is straight ahead...and the back wall is lined with dairy. The turn brings you to the meats.....and it runs to the end...where there is pizza and ice cream.

What's in the middle?? Canned and bottle goods, macaroni, sauce, fruit cups, oil,....stuff. Nothing healthier about the middle stuff.

[b4me]

Calorie restriction is not the answer, and 50 calorie deficit will likely only work on paper, not for most people, because it’s not the calories so much as they types of foods that make up the calories that matters with losing fat or weight.

Some people need to eat more calories of nutrient dense foods to get their chemicals back up to balance so that the body feels healthy enough/safe, to drop the fat.

[dfwgator]

It’s all about getting rid of Insulin Resistance.

Insulin in the blood = No fat loss

[AZJeep]

Our ancestor lived their lives on the verge of starvation!
So they ate anything they could get and stored any excess in fatty layers, for the bad times.
Even now, people who are overweight survive better during starvation events.

[lastchance]

Are the aisles being made narrower?

[EQAndyBuzz]

First step to making the those government stores. All that healthy food will help the people get stronger so they can stand in line, waiting for bread and potatoes.