Terry Prone: Retailers have food for thought as snack sales dip due to diet drug
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The first signs of a revolution are showing up in US grocery giant Walmart. They’re not calling it the Ozempic revolution, but that’s what it is. Walmart is seeing an impact on food shopping. People taking the drug, originally intended for diabetics but now widely used “off label” to lose weight, are shopping differently.
![It could be that drugs like Ozempic are likely to upend standard thinking as much as the arrival of antisepsis and antibiotics did. Picture illustration: Mario Tama/Getty Images It could be that drugs like Ozempic are likely to upend standard thinking as much as the arrival of antisepsis and antibiotics did. Picture illustration: Mario Tama/Getty Images](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7579/3789874_14_articleinline_GettyImages-1482904507_1_.jpg)
The complications are clear, but potential future-tense negative health outcomes become markedly less threatening when measured against guaranteed weight loss now.