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About Geaux Shop Healthy |
Why Healthy Retail? |
Benefits of Geaux Shop Healthy |
Healthy Retail Menu of Strategies |
Join Geaux Shop Healthy! |
Geaux Shop Healthy (GSH) is a community-based healthy retail program that aims to increase the supply and demand of healthy foods in Louisiana communities. The LSU AgCenter Healthy Communities program developed GSH by adapting research-based healthy retail programs from other universities to fit our unique state. The purpose of Geaux Shop Healthy is simple: to promote healthy items in local stores and encourage shoppers to purchase these items.
When people lack access to healthy food in their community, it can lead them to travel greater distances to shop for food, pay higher prices for low-quality food with poor nutritional value, and experience higher rates of obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases. These issues are especially common in rural areas, limited resource communities, and communities with a greater proportion of racial and ethnic minority populations. Because food retailers are uniquely positioned between communities and the products they consume, they are an ideal environment for encouraging healthy food choices and promoting good health. Engaging with local food retailers and community members through healthy retail efforts is a comprehensive approach to improving healthy food access in communities.
For Shoppers | For Retailers |
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Below are some examples of healthy retail strategies and activities offered through Geaux Shop Healthy. Food retailers that partner with us start out by choosing a minimum of two (2) strategies to implement in their stores and continue to add more strategies as the partnership grows.
Marketing & Communications |
Display & Stocking |
Customer Engagement |
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To learn more about Geaux Shop Healthy, contact your local LSU AgCenter extension office and ask for the FCS extension agent or contact us directly via email.
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture