A corner store intervention in a low-income urban community is associated with increased availability and sales of some healthy foods

Song, Hee‐Jung; Gittelsohn, Joel; Kim, Miyong T.; Suratkar, Sonali; Sharma, Sangita; Anliker, Jean

doi:10.1017/s1368980009005242

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“…However, our extant notion of access does not reflect this insight. Current policies attempt to fill the "grocery gap" and to make healthful food more affordable through subsidies (Bell, Mora, Hagan, Rubin, & Karpyn, 2013;Bitler & Haider, 2011;Song, Gittelsohn, Kim, Suratkar, Sharma, & Anliker, 2009). While these are useful and necessary, they are not sufficient.…”

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Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

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2015

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Historical racial injustices as well as more recent public and economic policies have culminated in the displacement of supermarkets from some central city neighborhoods. With this displacement, many low-income and minority neighborhoods not only have been deprived of affordable healthful food, but also have experienced prolonged exposure to energy-dense and highly processed snack foods. Partly as a consequence of this loss of supermarkets, diet-related diseases have become prevalent. Our current policies to improve this health issue address only objective measures of access, with little input from community residents, and they are having limited results. In response, I have reconceptualized access as a construct with five dimensions: acceptability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability, and availability. This new expanded view supports both objective and perceived aspects of access and values the knowledge of residents through community-based participatory research, thereby providing a more complete understanding of access.Keywords food access, race, five dimensions of access, grocery gap, health disparity, community-based participatory research, social determinants of health, food desert he increase in youth obesity rates and dietrelated diseases across age groups in lowincome and predominantly minority neighborhoods relative to middle-class White neighborhoods has received national attention of late

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“…But this may change over time and indeed, despite the rise of supermarkets, the importance of corner stores should not be overlooked, e.g. for nutrition interventions targeted through the food retail sector (29)(30)(31) . Regarding the characteristics of the study, its strengths are that the questionnaire was based on a preliminary in-depth qualitative study, that it featured detailed analyses according to the different types of supermarkets and food retail outlets and conducted a detailed assessment and analysis of the motivations behind the choice of the different types of outlets.…”

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Food shopping transition: socio-economic characteristics and motivations associated with use of supermarkets in a North African urban environment

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Bricas

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Objective: In the context of the nutrition transition and associated changes in the food retail sector, to examine the socio-economic characteristics and motivations of shoppers using different retail formats (large supermarkets (LSM), medium-sized supermarkets (MSM) or traditional outlets) in Tunisia. Design: Cross-sectional survey (2006). Socio-economic status, type of food retailer and motivations data were collected during house visits. Associations between socio-economic factors and type of retailer were assessed by multinomial regression; correspondence analysis was used to analyse declared motivations. Setting: Peri-urban area around Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa. Subjects: Clustered random sample of 724 households. Results: One-third of the households used LSM, two-thirds used either type of supermarket, but less than 5 % used supermarkets only. Those who shopped for food at supermarkets were of higher socio-economic status; those who used LSM were much wealthier, more often had a steady income or owned a credit card, while MSM users were more urban and had a higher level of education. Most households still frequently used traditional outlets, mostly their neighbourhood grocer. Reasons given for shopping at the different retailers were most markedly leisure for LSM, while for the neighbourhood grocer the reasons were fidelity, proximity and availability of credit (the latter even more for lower-income customers). Conclusions:The results pertain to the transition in food shopping practices in a south Mediterranean country; they should be considered in the context of growing inequalities in health linked to the nutritional transition, as they differentiate use and motivations for the choice of supermarkets v. traditional food retailers according to socio-economic status.

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“…Due to this small number, several unresolved questions exist about what components compose a successful food environment intervention, whom to sample, and outcomes of interest (e.g., should food purchases or diet quality of neighborhood residents be measured?). To date, interventions have been aimed at either the consumer nutrition environment (Gittelsohn, Song, et al, 2010;Gittelsohn, Vijayadeva, et al, 2010;Song, Gittelsohn, Kim, Suratkar, Sharma, & Anliker, 2009), using measures of consumer purchases, diet behaviors and psychosocial factors related to food purchasing and diet, or the community nutrition environment (Cummins, Findlay, Higgins, Petticrew, Sparks, & Thomson, 2008;Wrigley, Warm, & Margetts, 2003;Wrigley, Warm, Margetts, & Whelan, 2002), using measures of store-switching behavior, diet, and psychological factors. Consumer interventions have shown positive (Wrigley, et al, 2003)).…”

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Measuring the Food Environment: From Theory to Planning Practice

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Fisher

Raine

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The retail food environment is becoming an increasingly important consideration in land use planning decisions. Although many municipal official (or comprehensive) plans call for improved food environments, there are no standard methods by which to assess the implementation of policies reflecting these priorities. Methods developed to assess policy enforcement should be feasible to implement by urban planners and developers, should show some correlation between food environments and residents' health or diet outcomes, and should consider a more nuanced view of food environments than solely focusing on food access. In this paper we review food environment characteristics, theories and conceptual models, and assessment methods with goal of presenting theoretical bases for the selection of food environment assessment tools by public health planners and other practitioners. We examine methods to assess food environments and discuss potential adaptations of the methods to suit the needs of urban planners. A case study of the region of Waterloo is presented to illuminate the potential of food environment assessments for healthy public policy enforcement. Finally we describe implications for public health and urban planning.

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A corner store intervention in a low-income urban community is associated with increased availability and sales of some healthy foods

Cited by 164 publications

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Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

Food shopping transition: socio-economic characteristics and motivations associated with use of supermarkets in a North African urban environment

Measuring the Food Environment: From Theory to Planning Practice

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