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- Title
A corner store intervention in a low-income urban community is associated with increased availability and sales of some healthy foods.
- Authors
Hee-Jung Song; Gittelsohn, Joel; Miyong Kim; Suratkar, Sonali; Sharma, Sangita; Anliker, Jean
- Abstract
Objective: While corner store-based nutrition interventions have emerged as a potential strategy to increase healthy food availability in low-income communities, few evaluation studies exist. We present the results of a trial in Baltimore City to increase the availability and sales of healthier food options in local stores. Design: Quasi-experimental study. Setting: Corner stores owned by Korean-Americans and supermarkets located in East and West Baltimore. Subjects: Seven corner stores and two supermarkets in East Baltimore received a 10-month intervention and six corner stores and two supermarkets in West Baltimore served as comparison. Results: During and post-intervention, stocking of healthy foods and weekly reported sales of some promoted foods increased significantly in intervention stores compared with comparison stores. Also, intervention storeowners showed significantly higher self-efficacy for stocking some healthy foods in comparison to West Baltimore storeowners. Conclusions: Findings of the study demonstrated that increases in the stocking and promotion of healthy foods can result in increased sales. Working in small corner stores may be a feasible means of improving the availability of healthy foods and their sales in a low-income urban community.
- Subjects
NUTRITION; CONVENIENCE stores; NATURAL foods; SUPERMARKETS; FOOD habits
- Publication
Public Health Nutrition, 2009, Vol 12, Issue 11, p2060
- ISSN
1368-9800
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1368980009005242