Background
DISEASE
Dietary factors, such as low fruit, vegetable and fibre intake, and high sodium and sugar sweetened beverage intake, are leading modifiable contributors to the global burden of disease [Multicomponent interventions using behaviour change communication techniques in combination with modification of the store architecture (e.g., manipulation of where food and beverage products are placed in the store) have been popular intervention approaches [A number of reviews have identified the array of factors influencing the implementation of health-enabling food retail interventions [Middel et al. (2019) [Whilst these studies have built much needed evidence on the array of factors influencing implementation, there has been little focus on how these factors can inform implementation strategies to support the effective and sustained implementation of health-enabling food retail interventions [We applied the CFIR to a novel retail food environment intervention, the Healthy Stores 2020 study [To inform translation of the Healthy Stores 2020 innovation to practice and policy, this paper reports on our assessment of factors influencing implementation of the Healthy Stores 2020 strategy from the perspective of retailers. Through its application of a standardised implementation assessment framework, this study can help build global evidence on the implementation strategies needed to optimise the adoption of retail food environment intervention evidence in to practice for public health gain.