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Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (www.cnn.com)
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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Here's some articles that better explain it, it's not an industry secret. The stores are arranged specifically to exploit this.

https://www.foodstorm.com/blog/grocery-perimeter-department-roi

https://www.fooddive.com/news/grocery--fresh-growth-perimeter-trends/435201/

Those discount and convience stores are not grocery stores. It's not the same business model.