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The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives
Prior to the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, 70% of Australians’ food purchases were from supermarkets. Rural communities experience challenges accessing healthy food, which drives health inequalities. This study explores the impact of COVID-19 on food supply and purchasing behaviour in a rural supermark...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7912204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33525558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13020417 |
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author | Whelan, Jillian Brown, Andrew Dwight Coller, Lee Strugnell, Claudia Allender, Steven Alston, Laura Hayward, Josh Brimblecombe, Julie Bell, Colin |
author_facet | Whelan, Jillian Brown, Andrew Dwight Coller, Lee Strugnell, Claudia Allender, Steven Alston, Laura Hayward, Josh Brimblecombe, Julie Bell, Colin |
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description | Prior to the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, 70% of Australians’ food purchases were from supermarkets. Rural communities experience challenges accessing healthy food, which drives health inequalities. This study explores the impact of COVID-19 on food supply and purchasing behaviour in a rural supermarket. Group model building workshops explored food supply experiences during COVID-19 in a rural Australian community with one supermarket. We asked three supermarket retailers “What are the current drivers of food supply into this supermarket environment?” and, separately, 33 customers: “What are the current drivers of purchases in this supermarket environment?” Causal loop diagrams were co-created with participants in real time with themes drawn afterwards from coded transcripts. Retailers’ experience of COVID-19 included ‘empty shelves’ attributed to media and government messaging, product unavailability, and community fear. Customers reported fear of contracting COVID-19, unavailability of food, and government restrictions resulting in cooking more meals at home, as influences on purchasing behaviour. Supermarket management and customers demonstrated adaptability and resilience to normalise demand and combat reduced supply. |
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spelling | pubmed-79122042021-02-28 The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives Whelan, Jillian Brown, Andrew Dwight Coller, Lee Strugnell, Claudia Allender, Steven Alston, Laura Hayward, Josh Brimblecombe, Julie Bell, Colin Nutrients Article Prior to the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, 70% of Australians’ food purchases were from supermarkets. Rural communities experience challenges accessing healthy food, which drives health inequalities. This study explores the impact of COVID-19 on food supply and purchasing behaviour in a rural supermarket. Group model building workshops explored food supply experiences during COVID-19 in a rural Australian community with one supermarket. We asked three supermarket retailers “What are the current drivers of food supply into this supermarket environment?” and, separately, 33 customers: “What are the current drivers of purchases in this supermarket environment?” Causal loop diagrams were co-created with participants in real time with themes drawn afterwards from coded transcripts. Retailers’ experience of COVID-19 included ‘empty shelves’ attributed to media and government messaging, product unavailability, and community fear. Customers reported fear of contracting COVID-19, unavailability of food, and government restrictions resulting in cooking more meals at home, as influences on purchasing behaviour. Supermarket management and customers demonstrated adaptability and resilience to normalise demand and combat reduced supply. MDPI 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7912204/ /pubmed/33525558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13020417 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Whelan, Jillian Brown, Andrew Dwight Coller, Lee Strugnell, Claudia Allender, Steven Alston, Laura Hayward, Josh Brimblecombe, Julie Bell, Colin The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives |
title | The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives |
title_full | The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives |
title_fullStr | The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives |
title_short | The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on rural food supply and demand in australia: utilising group model building to identify retailer and customer perspectives |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7912204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33525558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13020417 |
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