Richmond

Your Health: Healthy Corner Store Initiative

The Richmond Healthy Corner Store Initiative is an effort to bring fresh produce to stores in neighborhoods that do not have many options for affordable, nutritious foods — so-called “food deserts.” ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga's first healthy corner store has arrived

The remaining three stores haven't been identified yet. But if you're a corner store owner and are interested in the healthy corner store initiative email Bill Rush at [email protected].
San Antonio Current

Sprouting Up: After a slow start, the Healthy Corner Stores initiative is planting oases in food deserts

Jamie Gonzalez of the Food Policy Council says stores won’t stock fresh produce if it doesn’t make economic sense. Credit: Jaime Monzon For many who reside around convenience store owner Iqbal ...
WTOL

Lucas County health department, city of Toledo partnering to ensure corner stores have healthy food options

TOLEDO, Ohio — Accessing fresh fruits and vegetables can be an obstacle for families living in some Toledo neighborhoods. Sometimes, the best way for people to get food is to go to the nearest corner ...
Drexel University

Healthy Eating Gets No Boost After Corner Store Interventions, Drexel Study Finds

A lack of access to healthy food is often blamed for poor eating habits in low-income urban areas, but a recent Drexel University study found that simply adding healthier stock to a local convenience ...
Long Island Business News

In Bay Shore, a local deli joins ‘Healthy Corner Store’ program

The Bay Shore Deli at 60 Reddington Street in Bay Shore has joined the “Healthy Corner Store, ”a Long Island-wide initiative that is designed to improve access to healthful eating habits for families ...
The Gazette

Nonprofit Cultivate Hope Corner Store brings healthy, reduced-cost food to Cedar Rapids’ Time Check neighborhood

CEDAR RAPIDS — Pete Chihak — a “grocery boy,” as he refers to himself — eagerly roams the aisles of the new Cultivate Hope Corner Store off Ellis Boulevard NW in a bright green T-shirt, showing off ...
WGRZ

Checking in on Buffalo's Healthy Corner Store Initiative

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A cooler stocked with colorful fruits and vegetables. Baskets of fresh produce lined up by the front door. Up until a few years ago, this would have been a rare sight to see at a ...
The Dispatch

Healthy Corner Store initiative provides greater access to fresh produce

Officials with the Davidson County Health Department are striving to improve the eating habits of county residents through their Healthy Corner Store Initiative. The program, which is funded through ...
Newsday

Bay Shore Deli joins CCE Suffolk's Healthy Corner Store Project

A corner store in Bay Shore is trying to help promote healthy eating habits in its community by making fresh fruits, vegetables, bottled water and low fat dairy more accessible and enticing. On ...
ABC Kcrg 9

Cultivate Hope Corner Store brings healthy food at affordable price to Time Check neighborhood

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Cedar Rapids based non-profit Matthew 25 held a grand opening for its new Cultivate Hope Corner Store on Wednesday. Located at 604 Ellis Blvd. in Cedar Rapids on the ...