A profile on Apples and Oranges Fresh Market (A&O Market), a supermarket that sells fresh and healthy prepared foods. This minority-owned supermarket is at the nexus of three Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) areas in East Baltimore, which collectively have an unmet grocery demand of $26.4 million based on The Reinvestment Funds’s 2011 LSA research.

A group of advocates for healthy living walked to the only grocery store downtown in an effort to bring attention to the food desert in their area. The Tennessee Obesity Task force walked from Legislative Plaza to the H. G. Hills Urban Market on Church Street to illustrate the difficulty that Tennesseans living in food deserts face in buying healthy foods.

Dahl’s Foods introduced snack stations for its youngest customers. For a donation of a quarter, kids can choose a snack from a rotating selection — including items like bananas, raisins, oranges, fruit leather or organic chocolate squares. The chain has long offered Brach’s candy for a quarter per three pieces, but wanted to bring in healthier options for children.

Cohosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Food Trust, a meeting was held to address the role of supermarkets in providing access to healthy affordable foods in communities and the role they play in reversing childhood obesity in lower - income and multi- ethnic communities.  The three goals of the meeting were to: 1) Connect (explore strategies that would help promote healthier diets for children and their familes) 2) Co - Create (generate and combine ideas for effective marketing strategies that would help consumers make healthier choices while meeting retailers' and manufacturers' business goals) 3) Contine (promote collaboration between food retailers and manufacturers and spread approaches that encourage healthy eating).

High-quality, full-service supermarkets improve the health and economic well-being of communities. However, supermarket operators face significant obstacles entering and operating in many low-income, urban communities. This webinar, developed by UpLift Solutions, explains the “Grocery Gap” and the financial and operational strategies that can enable supermarkets to be successful.

Local grocery stores are a critical anchor institution sustaining America’s rural communities. This webinar highlights Kansas State University's Rural Grocery Initiative and its research to better understand the challenges and needs of these small businesses. Learn how one CDFI, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., is working to provide financing to rural grocery stores to improve access to healthy foods.

This webinar provides critical information about underwriting supermarket and other grocery retail borrowers and projects for financing.

This special report outlines the extent and implications of the supermarket shortage in Chicago by identifying the gaps in food availability and the relationship between supermarket access, diet-related diseases and neighborhood income levels. Key findings and recommendations are provided.

City officials say too many Houstonians don't have access to fresh food in their neighborhoods and they're looking at ways to bring supermarkets into underserved communities. The city says it's an issue of both economic development and public health.

An executive summary of a case study book that profiles 16 Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that have initiated supermarket development projects in their communities. Each profile includes information on: the project, the CDC, the role of the city, the supermarket operator, key issues encountered, partnerships, jobs created, and funding sources.