Lidl announced today the national roll-out of its Healthy Checkouts initiative, which will see sweets and chocolates removed from the checkouts of its 600 stores in England, Scotland and Wales, and replaced with more ‘nutritious options’.
The products Lidl will be stocking on its Healthy Checkouts are nuts and dried fruit, oatcakes, ‘funsize’ bananas, apples and pears, multivitamin juice and sparkling water.
The move follows the launch of the ‘Junk free checkouts’ campaign last year, which ‘names and shames’ supermarkets that sell junk food at checkouts and queuing aisles, and presses the case for change.
Malcolm Clark, co-ordinator of the Children’s Food Campaign, one of the organisations behind ‘Junk free checkouts’, congratulated Lidl for making the move, but said more needs to be done to encourage other supermarkets and retailers to follow suit.
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