Because women do a lot of the family shopping, so that placement is not to aid perverts but to encourage wives and moms to restock basic necessities for all members of the family. Everything isn’t about voyeurism.
I’ve never seen a guy leering in the ladies’ aisles, and who cares about the food area? What can one really see from the vegetable aisle? Overthinking at its worst!
What 10 to 12 year old young girl wants to be seen looking at those items near anyone at all? Much less to be seen by men nearby looking at a pair of jeans, or the three teen boys walking down the chips and dips aisle in the grocery section?
With corporations going all in on the sexualization of children, I wouldn't doubt this is a deliberate action on the part of retail corporations.