Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in...
by HDThoreaun on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:18PM
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How can they measure individual grocery spending habits? People buy groceries for their whole household.
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in...
by hare2eternity on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:47AM
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If the dataset includes household size you could limit the analysis to that subset. Alternatively you could focus on households with lower average basket sizes and hypothesise that those households have fewer adults. Obviously those measure aren't going to be anywhere near perfect but might be informative.
Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in...
by alistairSH on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:04AM
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Tracking household size as part of the study.
See my parallel comment... are they reporting 1/4 of a household eats 25% individually (for a 5% reduction across a family of 4). Or, does one person eating 5% less cause the other 3 to also eat 5%... if it's the latter, this potentially has health impacts across people who aren't taking the drug.