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Public policy and the grocery store: improving access to healthy food

This toolkit is specifically designed to support your efforts to improve the retail food environment in your community through policy interventions at the state and local level.

Healthy Retail
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Model Ordinances:Healthy Checkout and Keep Soda in the Soda Aisle

There are two model ordinances in this document. The first ordinance creates healthy checkout aisles. The second ordinance keeps soda in the aisle rather than the checkout and numerous other locations in grocery stores. These policies can be modified to meet your locality’s unique needs, but please note that changes should be made with guidance from a lawyer. Also note that citations in the Findings section are for advocates’ reference but are generally not included in codes and should be removed in the final version of your legislation.

Healthy Retail
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Roadmap and Toolkit for a Healthy Checkout Ordinance

Healthy Checkout refers to efforts to improve the nutrition in the food and beverage products sold in areas where shoppers stand in line to purchase their groceries. It is a strategy that changes the shopping environment to make it easier for customers and their children to avoid both marketing and impulse purchases of sugary drinks and snacks high in sugar and salt.

Healthy Retail
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CSPI applauds the expansion of online Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and urges for further strategies to support SNAP shoppers

SNAPOctober 4, 2022
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Retail food environment recommendations

SNAP helps to reduce poverty, food insecurity, health care expenditures, and the risk of chronic conditions later in life. More than 250,000 retailers participate in the program across the country, with SNAP sales representing approximately nine percent of grocery sales industry-wide.

SNAP

Letter to FTC re: Request to Investigate Food Marketing to Children

CSPI and numerous other public health organizations and professionals urge the FTC to study 1. marketing expenditures by food and beverage companies to children and adolescents and 2. slotting fees, trade spend and other trade promotion practices in the retail grocery industry.

Healthy Kids
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Peter's Memo: Food shopping 2.0

Food LabelingJanuary 26, 2022
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New federal investigation looks into grocery industry marketing practices

Recently, the federal government requested that companies hand over confidential, multi-million-dollar contracts to assess potential harms to American consumers. This is not the ending to the newest spy movie. This is the beginning of the newest investigation into the grocery industry.

Healthy RetailJanuary 3, 2022Sara John, PhD
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Federal Trade Commission to probe grocery practices

Long before the current concerns about supply chain disruption, CSPI was concerned about anti-competitive practices in the grocery industry that dictate Americans’ choices and undermine our health. That’s why, in February of this year, we asked the Federal Trade Commission to use its authority under section 6(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act to launch an investigation into cooperative marketing agreements, “category captains,” and other trade promotion practices common in the grocery industry.

Healthy EatingDecember 1, 2021
Big Soda, Spreading Lies About “Grocery Taxes,” Attempts to Preempt Soda Taxes

Let's keep soda in the soda aisle

Healthy RetailNovember 3, 2021Sara John, PhD
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