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Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail
January, 2012 Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail is a new publication from HCSN co-conveners Public Health Law and Policy. Bringing healthy food to “food deserts” requires tenacity, ingenuity, and a significant investment of capital. The [...]
Study Shows That In-Store Signage Reduces Consumption of Sugary Beverages
A new study from the American Journal of Public Health documents that signage can prevent teens from buying soda in four Baltimore corner stores. Interestingly, it is not the calorie count that was the most persuasive information–it was the amount [...]
HCSN Issue Brief. The Supplier-Retailer Gap: Connecting Corner Stores with Local Foods
Winter, 2012. Has your program struggled with sourcing fresh, local foods for corner stores? The Supplier-Retailer Gap: Connecting Corner Stores with Local Foods explores this issue in detail, highlighting two different program approaches from opposite sides of the country: New [...]
Healthier Food Retail: Beginning the Assessment Process in your State or Community
Often the first step in making changes in a community’s food retail landscape is taking inventory. This six-page CDC document offers information for those interested in assessing the availability of healthy food retail in their area. Sections include links [...]
How to Work With Chains
7-Eleven, Circle K, am-pm…these are some of the large convenience store chains that operate in our communities yet are often perceived as “inaccessible” to those of us working in healthy retail. But there are also smaller, regional and locally owned [...]
