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Public health practitioners provided technical assistance to small food retailers, increasing healthy food options. Continued support is needed to overcome distribution and economic challenges for sustainable healthy food access.

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  • Public Health
  • Nutrition Science
  • Health Policy

Background:

  • Minimum stocking standard policies aim to improve healthy food availability in retail settings.
  • Policies alone may face implementation barriers like distributor and refrigeration issues.
  • Technical assistance (TA) from public health practitioners (PHPs) can support policy implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the impact of a pilot intervention where PHPs provided TA to store managers/owners.
  • To increase healthy food options through implementing minimal stocking standards.

Main Methods:

  • Pilot intervention involving 13 food retailers and PHPs from 11 agencies.
  • PHPs provided TA on healthy products, placement, and promotion.
  • Pre- and post-intervention interviews with managers/owners and data collection on healthy option availability.

Main Results:

  • Stores increased the median number of healthy food varieties offered.
  • TA addressed product sourcing, placement, promotion, distributor relationships, and infrastructure barriers.
  • Finding healthy food distributors remained a challenge for some retailers.

Conclusions:

  • PHPs are valuable partners for small food retailers in addressing healthy food access.
  • Continued TA and support for distribution and economic challenges are crucial for sustainability.
  • Partnerships between PHPs and retailers show potential for improving healthy food access.