Walk Score announced the ranking of the best and worst U.S. cities for access to food. The ranking measures access to healthy food by calculating the percent of people in a city who can walk to a grocery store in 5 minutes.

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.

San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar introduced legislation called the Healthy Food Retailer Incentives Program. The proposal takes aim at a long-standing challenge in San Francisco to ensure there are an adequate number of grocery stores, especially in low-income neighborhoods.

San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar announces that he would introduce legislation that aims to form an incentive program for city food retailers to market and sell fresh food, especially more produce, and cut back on high fat and sugar items and tobacco and alcohol products.

Supervisor Eric Mar has a new proposal to establish a Healthy Food Incentive Program to encourage small corner stores to stock fresh produce in San Francisco. He hasn’t settled on what the incentives might be to encourage merchants to sell more fresh food, but it might include small business loans or some hands-on assistance from the city to make the switch to fresh produce.

San Francisco Supervisor Mar says a recent city analysis shows that hundreds of mom-and-pop shops would close if more big-box chains start selling groceries in San Francisco. To save the small stores Mar wants to give shop owners incentives to sell more fresh fruits and vegetables.