Walmart Goes For Healthier Foods

Attention, Walmart shoppers: The food in your cart, from fruit drinks to salad dressing, may soon get healthier. Walmart said yesterday it will reformulate thousands of store-brand products to reduce sodium and sugar and push its suppliers to do the same. It also promised to reduced prices on produce and build stores in poor areas that don’t already have grocery stores. About 20% of Walmart’s food products are sold under its Great Value store brand. Making brand-name products healthier will require help from suppliers, but the company’s influence over them is unmistakable.