title: What influences Latino grocery shopping behavior? Perspectives on the small food store environment from managers and employees in San Diego, California.
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.
authors.affiliation: a San Diego State University-University of California at San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Health Behavior , San Diego , California , USA.|b Institute for Behavioral and Community Health , San Diego , California , USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Flack
authors.affiliation: c University of Iowa , College of Public Health, Community & Behavioral Health , Iowa City , Iowa , USA.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baquero
authors.affiliation: d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA.
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Linnan
authors.affiliation: e Center for Human Nutrition and Global Obesity Prevention Center, Department of International Health , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gittelsohn
authors.affiliation: b Institute for Behavioral and Community Health , San Diego , California , USA.
authors.forename: Julie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pickrel
authors.affiliation: b Institute for Behavioral and Community Health , San Diego , California , USA.|f San Diego State University , College of Health & Human Services , San Diego , California , USA.
authors.forename: Guadalupe X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Ayala
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D005523:Food Supply / Q000191:economics*; D015438:Health Behavior; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Food environment; Latinos; grocery shopping; health behavior; qualitative