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Starter kits

Get everything you need to begin partnering with small food retailers, promoting healthy eating and providing access to nutritious foods in your community.

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Retailer resources

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Toolkit provides ideas and tools for retailers and community partners to work together to improve access to healthy foods.

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Community network

The Community Toolkit includes helpful strategies for forming a community network, partnering with and promoting a store, providing community outreach and education, and building community demand for healthful foods.

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Improving access to healthy foods

Millions of Americans have limited access to a supermarket, which means they must rely on fast food restaurants and small food retailers, such as gas stations and corner stores, to feed themselves and their families.

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy is a comprehensive, community-based program that enables communities to improve access to healthy foods by working with a small food retailer. Through toolkits, resources and webinars, Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy will guide any community group through a unique approach to increasing access to healthy foods that involves engaging small food retailers and community members, thus addressing supply and demand at the same time.

Publications

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Introduction to Local Food Systems

Publication date: Sept. 1, 2022

Mary HendricksonAssociate ProfessorRural SociologySarah Hultine MassengaleExtension State Specialist in Community Development andAssistant Extension Professor, University of Missouri-St. LouisThe local production and marketing of food has reached a ...

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Sign — Free Fruit for Kids (Spanish)

Publication date: Jan. 1, 2018

Small food retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program can post this Spanish-language 11-x-8.5-inch sign to offer a free piece of fruit to children to eat while the adult with them shops.Also available in English.Stock Healthy, ...

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Large Shelf Talkers (Spanish)

Publication date: Nov. 1, 2017

Retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program can help their Spanish-speaking customers make the healthier choice by posting these shelf talkers to present information about various products in their stores. Most of these large ...

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Poster — We Stock Healthy (14 x 20 inches)

Publication date: Sept. 1, 2017

Retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program can use this poster to let customers know the store is stocking healthy foods.Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy is a comprehensive, community-based program that enables communities to ...

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Loyalty Card — Milk

Publication date: Aug. 1, 2017

Reward customers for making healthy purchases of skim or 1% milk. Small food retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program can use this milk loyalty card to give customers a free half gallon of skim or 1% milk after buying 10. ...

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Shelf Talkers

Publication date: Aug. 1, 2017

Retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program can help their customers make the healthier choice by posting these shelf talkers to present health information about various products in their stores.Where to place shelf talkers: On ...

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Resources

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The Center for Healthy Food Access

A national collaborative effort supporting healthy food access in underserved urban and rural communities.

The Fight to Eliminate Food Deserts in St. Louis

Sauce Magazine article about the St. Louis Healthy Corner Store Project, which is what Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy is based on, and the struggle with lack of access to healthy foods in low-income communities in St. Louis.

Stock Healthy Shop Healthy program aims to improve your healthy food choices

St. Joseph Post article about how grant money and partnership with the St. Joseph Health Department, MU Extension and the State Dept. of Health and Human Services can be used to encourage more access to healthy foods.

For rural Cass County store, stocking healthy means customers will shop healthy

Kansas City Star article that highlights the goals of Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy, how it works with retailers and the success it has had at Creighton Country Mart.

Health Around the Corner

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis article about how communities have begun working with corner stores, bodegas and rural groceries to increase access to healthy, affordable foods by making changes that improve both the store environment and the food ...

Corner Stores Bring Healthy Options to Food Deserts Across St. Louis

St. Louis Magazine article that tells the story of how the St. Louis Healthy Corner Store Project expanded to become a statewide program - Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy.

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