ChangeLab Solutions developed a Model Licensing Ordinance for Healthy Food Retailers, along with an accompanying guide that describes how the ordinance works and provides tips on how to implement it successfully in your community. The ordinance changes business licensing policies to require all food stores (not including restaurants) to carry a minimum selection of healthy food and meet other basic operating standards. In short, it sets a "healthy baseline" to improve food quality and accessibility at food stores across an entire community.

ChangeLab Solutions’ toolkit describes how to create a strong healthy small food retailer certification program by requiring participating stores to increase the variety of healthy foods they sell, reduce the offerings of unhealthy foods, and proactively market healthy options with help from a sponsoring agency or organization. It provides step-by-step instructions for developing a certification program, with ideas and examples from existing programs.

A group of concerned students in Watsonville, CA formed Jóvenes SANOS, a program working to raise awareness about childhood obesity and implement policies that promote healthy nutrition and physical activity. This case study highlights the Watsonville Healthy Markets Pilot Program where students have successfully engaged local corner stores in marketing and promoting healthier food options. The program has contributed to substantial health improvements and decreased the County’s obesity rate.

This report assesses and graphically depicts walkable access to healthy food retailers in Philadelphia for 2010 and 2012. It focuses additional attention on low‐income neighborhoods in which residents may have the fewest resources to purchase healthy foods and/or to travel to distant retailers. This analysis includes supermarkets, corner stores, convenience stores, farmers’ markets, and produce carts. Based on published research, each food retailer is assigned a score and service area reflecting its relative size, operating hours, and the availability and quantity of healthy foods for purchase.

An issue brief that explains the importance of developing health corner stores with local food sources in order to improve profitability and more importantly, increase access to healthy foods.  Points that are included in this brief: Identifying and selecting a supplier and/or distribution model, ensuring profitability of the model for both suppliers and store owners, accounting for limited seasonality of produce in many parts of the country, understanding consumer preferences and creating customer demand, improving corner store infrastructure and owner familarity with selling produce, and building long - term sustainability and economic benefit.

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

Grocery stores are not necessarily designed to help customers choose the healthiest food. Signs and specials advertise chips and soda, and the coupons are usually for the pre-packaged, processed foods advertised by big brand-name companies with deep pockets. This article discusses small things stores can do that will help them move a lot more volume of the healthy stuff.

The goal of the Produce for Better Health Foundation is to foster an environment where people can include fruits and vegetables at every eating occasion. They provide resources for fruit and vegetable marketing and education.

Supervisor Eric Mar introduces legislation to establish a Healthy Food Retailer Incentives Program. The purpose of this legislations is to increase access to healthy food; reduce unhealthy influences such as tobacco, alcohol and processed foods high in salt, fat and sugar in underserved parts of the City by providing incentives for existing corner and mom and pop stores.

A study observing customer shopping behavior and store food inventory data, finding a positive correlation between fruit and vegetable variety and the probability of purchasing.