The discount grocer Aldi has become the latest supermarket to introduce "healthier tills" at all of its stores across the UK, though the change will not happen until January 2015.
All confectionery, chocolate and sweets will be removed from stands at Aldi's checkouts and replaced with healthier options including dried fruit, nuts, juices and water.
The move follows a 16-week trial in a selected number of Aldi's 500 UK stores which ran from February to June this year.
Giles Hurley, joint managing director of corporate buying at the supermarket, said: "The healthier tills trial quickly showed that healthier foods prove more popular with our shoppers than the traditional checkout offer of confectionery and sweets."
The UK's largest retailer, Tesco, announced in May that it was to ban sweets and chocolates from its checkouts after a survey of customers showed overwhelming support for the move.
In January, Aldi's German discount competitor, Lidl, banned confectionery from the checkout at all 600 of its British stores after a survey of parents' views. It replaced racks of sweets at the tills with dried and fresh fruit, oatcakes and juices.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of the consumer group Which?, said: "It is welcome news that Aldi is promoting healthier tills across all of its stores. We want all retailers to ensure that product positioning, particularly at the checkout, helps people to make healthier choices."
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