@article{Steves:311337,
      recid = {311337},
      author = {Steves, Alexander and Cho, Clare and Metin, Çakır and  Kong, Xiangwen and Boland, Michael},
      title = {The Food Retail Landscape Across Rural America},
      address = {2021-06-02},
      number = {1962-2021-1696},
      series = {EIB 223},
      month = {Jun},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {In this report, we examine the landscape of food retailers  across the contiguous United States, with a focus on rural  America and grocery stores. Changes in food retailers have  raised concerns about food access and have led Federal  policymakers to introduce several pieces of legislation to  improve access to healthy foods, such as the Healthy Food  Financing Initiative. We use the National Establishment  Time Series (NETS) dataset to create a more complete  picture of food retailers, while using store-level  information to examine sales and employment, and to  distinguish between national, regional, and local chains  and single location stores. We find that in rural and urban  nonmetro counties, grocery stores outnumbered other forms  of food retailers, but that grocery stores declined from  1990 to 2015 while dollar stores and supercenters increased  steadily. We also found that although single location  grocery stores outnumbered chains in 2015, they have been  decreasing throughout this period, resulting in single  location grocery stores as a share of food retailers  decreasing from 87 to 82 percent.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/311337},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.311337},
}