Assessing changes in the food retail environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 mitigation strategies have had an untold effect on food retail stores and restaurants. Early evidence from New York City (NYC) indicated that these strategies, among decreased travel from China and increased fears of viral transmission and xenophobia, were leading to mass closures of businesses in Manhattan's Chinatown. The constantly evolving COVID -19 crisis has caused research design and methodology to fundamentally shift, requiring adaptable strategies to address emerging and existing public health problems such as food security that may result from closures of food outlets.

Objective

We describe innovative approaches used to evaluate changes to the food retail environment amidst the constraints of the pandemic in an urban center heavily burdened by C

SUBMITTER: Russo RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014275 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature