Store and neighborhood differences in retailer compliance with a local staple foods ordinance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Policies to improve healthy food retail have been recognized as a potential means of reducing diet-related health disparities. The revised 2014 Minneapolis Staple Foods Ordinance instituted minimum stocking standards for healthy, staple foods. The objective of this study was to examine retailer compliance with the policy, and whether compliance varied by neighborhood and store characteristics.

Methods

In this natural experiment, audits were conducted annually pre- and post-ordinance (2014-2017) in 155 small/nontraditional stores in Minneapolis, MN and a comparison city (St. Paul, MN). Compliance measures for 10 product categories included: (1) met requirements for ≥8 categories; (2) 10-point scale (one point for each requirement met); and (3) carried any item in e

SUBMITTER: Caspi CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001202 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature