--- title: Veggie Snacks for Kids at Supermarkets description: Grocery store aisles starting to look like junk food aisles to get kids to buy vegetables. canonical: https://time.com/3181780/veggie-snacks-for-kids/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-26T15:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:45.686Z og:title: Veggie Snacks for Kids at Supermarkets og:description: Can shelves lined with veggie snacks produce that "kid in a candy store" feeling? og:url: https://time.com/3181780/veggie-snacks-for-kids/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt221fe3b9c6d9a5cb/6986a0e855a85953fba824cc/veggies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: veggies og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Veggie Snacks for Kids at Supermarkets twitter:description: Can shelves lined with veggie snacks produce that "kid in a candy store" feeling? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt221fe3b9c6d9a5cb/6986a0e855a85953fba824cc/veggies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Veggie Aisles at Supermarkets Could Start Looking More Like Junk Food Aisles > Sponsored content. 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[NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/25/341963166/grocers-lead-kids-to-produce-aisle-with-junk-food-style-marketing) reports the company is rolling out products like these carrot “Veggie Snackers” and tubes of pureed fruit to market the healthy foods to children, designing the packaging and aisle layouts to look more like the candy section than produce shelves. Laura Karet, CEO of Giant Eagle, [told NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/25/341963166/grocers-lead-kids-to-produce-aisle-with-junk-food-style-marketing) that these child produce stations are a “win-win.” Giant Eagle is installing these kid-friendly sections in about 400 stores in the mid-Atlantic and Ohio, and Walmart plans to implement them in 1,500 stores later this year. Jeff Dunn, CEO of Bolthouse, [explained to NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/25/341963166/grocers-lead-kids-to-produce-aisle-with-junk-food-style-marketing) that the “Veggie Snacker” carrots “give you that crunch and flavor” of chips, and that you’ll “get that same sensory \[experience\] you get with salty snacks.” Now it just remains to be seen whether hungry kids will agree. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3181780/veggie-snacks-for-kids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3181780/veggie-snacks-for-kids/"},"headline":"Why Veggie Aisles at Supermarkets Could Start Looking More Like Junk Food Aisles","datePublished":"2014-08-26T15:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:45.686Z","description":"Can shelves lined with veggie snacks produce that \"kid in a candy store\" feeling?","url":"https://time.com/3181780/veggie-snacks-for-kids/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt221fe3b9c6d9a5cb/6986a0e855a85953fba824cc/veggies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt221fe3b9c6d9a5cb/6986a0e855a85953fba824cc/veggies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"veggies","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3181780/veggie-snacks-for-kids/","name":"Why Veggie Aisles at Supermarkets Could Start Looking More Like Junk Food Aisles"}}]}] ```