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America’s Convenience-Store Conundrum
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“It’s time to start eating real food again,” the health secretary said during a speech in Pennsylvania last week.
The path toward Kennedy’s goal runs through an overlooked piece of the food landscape: convenience stores.
The move could put us one step closer to healthy convenience stores, which have long been a dream of some nutrition reformers.
Convenience stores are concerned that stocking healthy products will just mean wasted shelf space in their already crowded stores.
Retailers hung up posters to promote these new healthy foods, and some gave out coupons to encourage specific purchases.