In recent years, more and more people are care about the nutrition of the food. They have found that there are many types of foods which do not qualify to be the good food but these foods are dumping in the market. A lot of kids and teenagers are fed with these foods, which could harm their health seriously.
According to Reuters, Walmart is going to introduce the new system, which is “Great for You” campaign. In this campaign, icons would be given to the foods approved by the company as nutritional. This would help users identify the good food from the bad ones.
From time to time, customers find it difficult to identify the quality and nutritional food. But with the system introduced by Walmart, it is more likely that the food could be identified well. Although there are nutrition labels in the food package, normal customers find it difficult to interpret and calculate the actual quantity of nutrients contained in the food. Moreover, some of the manufacturers may tend not to mention some of the unhealthy nutrients in detail. This would make the buyers fail to make a good choice. With the help of sellers, it is hoped that the situation can be adjusted to a better one and there would not be a lot of problems caused.
As introduced by the article, there are some types of foods which are on debate. For example, the eggs would contain a lot of nutrients especially protein, but there would usually be problems like high cholesterol. This usually poses a problem for the manufacturers to sort the foods well. But this would not be a real problem as long as the company is willing to perform further study. This is the reason why Walmart finally can include eggs as the healthy food and put the label on them.
In order to make the system successful, it is necessary for Walmart to keep the quality of assessment. When it is trying to do the assessment on the quality of foods, it would need to be neutral and it should not be affected by any of the business factors. Some of the companies are notorious for earning money through putting those icons for the food manufacturers. It is hoped that the system introduced by Walmart is not of this type. Otherwise, the reliability of the whole system would be ruined.
To conclude, the move taken by Walmart is one of the successful examples showing that large corporations should have the concept of corporate social responsibility, that is to care for the benefit of the public rather than being selfish in pursuing company profit. The cost of launching this campaign will not be high but the benefit and effect would be perfect. A lot of customers would have a more reliable indicator about the nutritional value of foods that they buy and this would also force other large chain sellers to follow Walmart or otherwise they would be abandoned by customers very soon.