{"id":679754,"date":"2026-07-08T04:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:36:15","slug":"from-mouthwash-to-hair-dye-how-weight-loss-jabs-are-changing-shopping-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679754\/","title":{"rendered":"From mouthwash to hair dye: How weight-loss jabs are changing shopping habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mounjaro and Wegovy &#8211; the UK&#8217;s most popular weight-loss medications &#8211; work by mimicking a natural hormone, GLP-1, which regulates hunger, and those who use then say they find their appetite is reduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June, market research company Worldpanel by Numerator published a study looking at how this affects grocery spending among UK users. The research was based on survey responses and observed purchase data from more than 11,000 households in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A key finding was that households with at least one GLP-1 user spent on average \u00a3418 less on groceries in the year after they began their medication, compared with non-users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This amounted to a fall of \u00a3780m in grocery spending nationally, it estimated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It chimes with <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5073929&amp;__cf_chl_f_tk=a83eZnMOvv5FlZqudoE5B6EtmeoN6nJb49oj7UR2rvg-1783332633-1.0.1.1-nNesmQ9EdzevONVAhsrNVJE3a8KOnyluejnsTC3p0y4\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a peer-reviewed study from Cornell University, external<\/a> published last year, which found that US households with at least one member using weight-loss drugs spent 5% less on groceries within six months of starting the medication, with that rising to 8% among higher income families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mounjaro and Wegovy &#8211; the UK&#8217;s most popular weight-loss medications &#8211; work by mimicking a natural hormone, GLP-1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}