November 14, 2011 in Tools
Community Health Councils, Inc., Los Angeles. Checklist of quality/type of products in store that community members can fill out and give to storeowners on pages 8-9.
November 14, 2011 in Tools
The Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support (MDHFS) developed these evaluation tools to determine the availability of healthy foods in corner stores. Based on the results from these surveys, MDHFS launched The Minneapolis Healthy Corner Store Program. See more information about the project here.
Corner Store Visual Assessment Tool.
This 7-page tool can help organizers determine the availability of healthy foods in corner stores, as well as gain information about the potential of a store to offer healthier foods in the future. Surveyors can obtain information such as: services provided by the store (i.e. do they accept EBT); types, quality, and price of healthy food sold; a physical description of the store; availability of coolers and other space for displaying healthy items; and much more.
Corner Store Owner Survey.
Organizers can use this 5-page storeowner survey to help choose corner stores for participation in a healthy corner store project. The survey includes questions to gauge a store owner’s involvement in the neighborhood and community, commitment and interest in the project goals, and to gain information about the business itself.
March 25, 2011 in Reports
March 25, 2011, Altarum Institute. This report describes findings of a study that examined the impact of the changes to the WIC food package on small, authorized WIC stores. The study included small WIC stores in Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and found that small stores are adding healthy foods to their inventories in response to the food package changes. While findings from store manager interviews revealed some challenges in finding the new WIC foods in allowable form and in maintaining food freshness, their overall response to the new food package was very positive.
January 1, 2009 in Tools
Delridge Healthy Corner Store Project, 2009. This extensive toolkit was created as a collaboration between a Seattle community group, a neighborhood development organization and students at the University of Washington. They developed the kit after identifying best practices from other projects around the country. It contains three parts: 1) A manual for community organizers who are coordinating a healthy corner store project; 2) A toolkit for storeowners who are taking steps to stock, market and sell healthy foods, particularly fresh produce; 3) An appendix with templates of materials community organizations can use as they develop and evaluate their project.
January 1, 2008 in Tools
This document provides the results of a survey of corner stores to examine barriers to and possibilities for increasing their inventory of healthy foods. It also recommends strategies and opportunities for increasing the availability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods that will be relevant to many other areas.
Store inventory tool on pages 34-38
Store interview tool on pages 39-42
