What Influences Latino Grocery Shopping Behavior? Perspectives on the Small Food Store Environment from Managers and Employees in San Diego, California

Overview

Journal Ecol Food Nutr

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2016 Jan 23

PMID 26800243

Citations 9

Authors

Jennifer C Sanchez-Flack

Barbara Baquero

Laura A Linnan

Joel Gittelsohn

Julie L Pickrel

Guadalupe X Ayala

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Abstract

To inform the design of a multilevel in-store intervention, this qualitative study utilized in-depth semistructured interviews with 28 managers and 10 employees of small-to-medium-sized Latino food stores (tiendas) in San Diego, California, to identify factors within the tienda that may influence Latino customers' grocery-shopping experiences and behaviors. Qualitative data analysis, guided by grounded theory, was performed using open coding. Results suggest that future interventions should focus on the physical (i.e., built structures) and social (i.e., economic and sociocultural) dimensions of store environments, including areas where the two dimensions interact, to promote the purchase of healthy food among customers.

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