An Examination of Failed Grocery Store Interventions in Former Food Deserts

Engler‐Stringer, Rachel; Fuller, Daniel; Abeykoon, A M Hasanthi; Olauson, Caitlin; Muhajarine, Nazeem

doi:10.1177/1090198119853009

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“…The scope of this case study project was broad and aimed to capture these additional elements and expand beyond healthy food access considerations, allowing us to explore in-depth strategies and shortcomings for overall store success. This expanded scope is critical, given that previous work has shown that simply opening a food store in a neighborhood with low food access does not guarantee success or improve community health outcomes [ 16 , 37 , 38 ].…”

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Increasing Healthy Food Access for Low-Income Communities: Protocol of the Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project

Gittelsohn

Kasprzak

Hill

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Improving healthy food access in low-income communities continues to be a public health challenge. One strategy for improving healthy food access has been to introduce community food stores, with the mission of increasing healthy food access; however, no study has explored the experiences of different initiatives and models in opening and sustaining healthy food stores. This study used a case study approach to understand the experiences of healthy food stores in low-income communities. The purpose of this paper is to describe the methodology used and protocol followed. A case study approach was used to describe seven healthy food stores across urban settings in the U.S. Each site individually coded their cases, and meetings were held to discuss emerging and cross-cutting themes. A cross-case analysis approach was used to produce a series of papers detailing the results of each theme. Most case studies were on for-profit, full-service grocery stores, with store sizes ranging from 900 to 65,000 square feet. Healthy Food Availability scores across sites ranged from 11.6 (low) to 26.5 (high). The papers resulting from this study will detail the key findings of the case studies and will focus on the challenges, strategies, and experiences of retail food stores attempting to improve healthy food access for disadvantaged communities. The work presented in this special issue will help to advance research in the area of community food stores, and the recommendations can be used by aspiring, new, and current community food store owners.

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“…Some of the reasons stated for their closure included poor sales, inadequate marketing, and a lack of food retail experience. This review highlighted that the reasons for store closures in this context are understudied and not reported in great detail, especially in urban settings [ 16 ].…”

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Increasing Healthy Food Access for Low-Income Communities: Protocol of the Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project

Gittelsohn

Kasprzak

Hill

et al. 2022

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“…For example, Brinkley et al (2019) found community engagement critical for the long-term success of supermarket interventions in food deserts. The lack of adequate engagement of the community has been attributed to the failure of food access interventions including mobile grocery (Ramirez et al, 2017) and convenience store transformations (Engler-Stringer et al, 2019).…”

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Framing Food Access: Do Community Gardens Inadvertently Reproduce Inequality?

Butterfield

Ramírez

2020

Health Educ Behav

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Background Alternative food programs have been proposed as solutions to food insecurity and diet-related health issues. However, some of the most popular programs—farmers markets and community-supported agriculture—overwhelmingly serve White and upper-middle-class individuals, exacerbating food security and health disparities. One explanation for the mismatch is the way in which alternative food programs are framed: Language used to encourage participation may reflect priorities of upper-middle-class and White populations who create and run these programs while lacking resonance with food-insecure populations. This literature, however, lacks consideration of how lower-cost, more participatory programs—community gardens—are framed. We therefore explore the framing of community gardens through a quantitative content analysis of the descriptions, missions, and goals provided by community garden managers across Minnesota ( N = 411). Results Six frames were consistently present in the community garden statements: greater good, community orientation, healthy food access, food donation, self-empowerment, and symbolic food labels. Greater good and community orientation were significantly more likely to be used than any other frames. Conclusions Taken together, our findings suggest that community gardens may be welcoming toward a diversity of participants but still have room to improve the inclusivity of their frames. The common use of a community orientation suggests the unique ability of community gardens among alternative food programs to benefit Black, Latino, and working-class populations. However, the most common frame observed was “greater good,” suggesting one mechanism through which community gardens, like other types of alternative food programs, may be reproducing inequality through alienation of food-insecure populations.

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“…While food insecurity is generally thought of as an economic issue in Canada ( Long et al, 2020 ), the social aspects of food insecurity as they relate to transportation infrastructure have not been explored in great depth. In Canada, populations in urban centres tend to be food insecure if they are economically disadvantaged ( Gassman-Pines and Schenck-Fontaine, 2019 ), live in food deserts ( Balcaen and Storie, 2018 , Engler-Stringer et al, 2019 ) and/or are from demographic populations more likely to experience both ( Jones et al, 2021 , Testa and Jackson, 2019 ). Food insecurity is tied to lower quality diets that ultimately lead to a variety of health and quality of life issues ( Eicher-Miller and Zhao, 2018 , Tait et al, 2018 ).…”

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Telecommuting and food E-commerce: Socially sustainable practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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Toole

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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Telecommuting has become a dominant professional experience for many Canadian business and workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Telecommuting has several benefits that are separate from COVID-19. Two prevalent changes have been in regard to telecommuting and online food buying habits, both of which impact social wellbeing as a dimension of social sustainability. We discuss two exploratory surveys on the perception of telecommuting and food e-commerce. We found that while telecommuting has the potential to increase social wellbeing and the social sustainability of both urban and rural Canadian communities through a variety of mechanisms, food e-commerce does not offer similar returns. Instead, the prevalence of food e-commerce merely adds convenience to the lives of those who already have adequate food access while maintaining the status quo, or even worsening access for disadvantaged Canadians.

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An Examination of Failed Grocery Store Interventions in Former Food Deserts

Cited by 18 publications

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Increasing Healthy Food Access for Low-Income Communities: Protocol of the Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project

Increasing Healthy Food Access for Low-Income Communities: Protocol of the Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project

Framing Food Access: Do Community Gardens Inadvertently Reproduce Inequality?

Telecommuting and food E-commerce: Socially sustainable practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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