Supermarket discounts: Are they promoting healthy non-alcoholic beverages?

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-107

  Pollock, Sarah ^a   Signal, Louise ^a   Watts, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Food discount; Price; Supermarket

Indexed keywords

EID: 66749089828     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2009.01336.x     Document Type: Article

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