S3 Ep. 15 Exploring Technical Assistance for Small Minnesota Food Retailers with Liana Schreiber and Alex Groten

In this episode, Liana Schreiber and Alex Groten discuss a pilot intervention in which public health practitioners provided technical assistance to managers/owners of small food retail stores in Minnesota in order to increase healthy options through a variety of strategies including minimum stocking standards. They help shift the perception that health departments' only function is to regulate the food retail space; public health can be a supportive, helpful partner to food retailers when co-creating an action plan on how to improve community health. Due to the partnerships and evaluation success, two of the stores were able to receive larger scale infrastructure grants. This episode references the article titled "Technical Assistance From Public Health Practitioners to Small Food Retailers to Implement Minimum Stocking Standards" by Liana Schreiber, MPH, RDN, Teresa Rondeau-Ambroz, MPH, RDN, Susan Bishop, BFA, and Ann Zukoski, DrPH, MPH.