Undergraduate Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA.
School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, CA 94609, USA.
Nutrients. 2021 Feb 26;13(3):752. doi: 10.3390/nu13030752.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is critical to alleviating food insecurity, but low diet quality among program participants is a concern. Nutrition-related interventions have focused on SNAP-authorized food retailers, but the perspectives of small food store owners and managers have not been represented in national policy discussions. This study aimed to explore the opinions of store owners/managers of SNAP-authorized small food stores about their overall perceptions of the program and the stricter stocking standards previously proposed in 2016. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 33 small food store owners and managers in San Francisco and Oakland, California in 2016. Interviews were analyzed for thematic content using the general inductive approach. Four themes emerged from owners/managers' discussion of their overall perceptions of SNAP: the beneficial impact of SNAP on their business, how SNAP enables them to connect with the broader community, the importance of SNAP in preventing hunger, and the nutrition-related struggles that SNAP participants face. Store owners/managers had a generally favorable response towards the proposed stricter stocking standards. Additional themes discussed pertained to the concern about whether stocking changes would lead SNAP participants to purchase more healthful food and some logistical challenges related to sourcing and storing perishable foods.
补充营养援助计划（SNAP）对于缓解粮食不安全至关重要，但计划参与者的饮食质量低是一个令人关注的问题。与营养相关的干预措施侧重于 SNAP 授权的食品零售商，但小型食品店店主和经理的观点在国家政策讨论中并未得到体现。本研究旨在探讨 SNAP 授权的小型食品店店主/经理对该计划的总体看法以及 2016 年提出的更严格的进货标准。我们于 2016 年在加利福尼亚州旧金山和奥克兰对 33 名小型食品店店主/经理进行了深入的半结构化访谈。使用一般归纳法对访谈进行了主题内容分析。店主/经理在讨论他们对 SNAP 的总体看法时出现了四个主题：SNAP 对他们业务的有益影响、SNAP 使他们如何与更广泛的社区联系、SNAP 在预防饥饿方面的重要性以及 SNAP 参与者面临的营养相关困难。店主/经理对拟议的更严格的进货标准普遍持积极态度。讨论的其他主题涉及对进货变化是否会导致 SNAP 参与者购买更健康食品的担忧，以及与采购和储存易腐食品相关的一些后勤挑战。
