Big Food vs. Big Pharma: Companies bet on snacking just as weight loss drugs boom

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6. Thanks! There are junk-food-baited traps even around the perimeter,

though.

The entry to the grocery store nearest me has displays of candy, chips and other snacks across from the carts between the two doors.

Right inside the inner door, just feet from the first tables of produce, are a couple of tables of pastries and a wall display of chips.

More chips and popcorn displayed on the other side of the produce section, then the bakery, which is as large as the produce section.

Chips, cookies and other unhealthy snacks displayed at the end of almost every center aisle bordering the meat and fish departments.

Chips and cookies on small. displays in the dairy department, because God forbid you buy milk, cheese, eggs and orange juice without finding those snacks just a few feet away.

Cookies and candy and pastries displayed between the frozen veggies and aisles for toothpaste and shampoo.

And then you finally get to checkout, where there's a display of candy and other snacks between each checkout aisle.

And that's avoiding all the long displays of these junk foods in those center aisles. And the large candy display below the customer service counter.