Small food store retailers' views on healthy food retail policy in response to a local staple foods ordinance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our objectives were to explore attitudes regarding food retail policy and government regulation among managers of small food stores and examine whether manager views changed due to the 2014 Minneapolis Staple Foods Ordinance, a city policy requiring retailers to stock specific healthy products.

Design

Manager interviewer-administered surveys were used to assess views on food retail policy four times from 2014 to 2017. We examined baseline views across manager and store and neighbourhood characteristics using cross-sectional regression analyses and examined changes over time using mixed regression models. In 2017, open-ended survey questions asked about manager insights on the Minneapolis Staple Foods Ordinance.

Setting

Minneapolis, MN, where the ordinance wa

SUBMITTER: McGuire CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7726034 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature