Food System Initiatives: Food Store Interventions

Making it easy for people to make healthy choices is key to creating a healthy community. To make good choices, healthy options must be available and affordable. We offer tools to help improve your community’s access to healthy foods and beverages.

Check Out Healthy, P-00566 (PDF) is a toolkit to address food environments within and around food stores in Wisconsin communities.

The toolkit can be used by local coalitions, community leaders, and other public health champions. It can help increase availability and access to healthier foods and beverages.

It also includes tips on how to promote healthier choices, such as fruits, vegetables, and drinking water in food stores.

Success story

Corner Stores in Rural Wisconsin Provide Residents with Fresh Produce—A success story from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Survey tool

Nutrition Environmental Measures Survey was developed to assess community and consumer nutrition environments.