Social and/or solidarity grocery stores in France, current situation and perspectives

Social and/or solidarity grocery stores, an emerging actor in the food aid landscape, are both places of purchase at reduced prices, and spaces of support and social integration for precarious populations often on social criteria. Despite a lack of robust data to characterize their impacts, several signals indicate that it is an interesting tool to promote access to quality. Result of a qualitative survey work and a literature review, this article provides a state of the art of the knowledge on grocery stores. The authors identify several avenues for optimization which would make it possible to strengthen the impact on the nutritional behaviours of beneficiaries and call for the carrying out of additional studies in order to inform decision-making in the field of food aid and guide deployment of these structures. (c) 2024 Socie<acute accent>te<acute accent> franc,aise de nutrition. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.