Implementation
ALPA were responsible for the implementation of the Healthy Stores 2020 strategy in their stores. A visiting team of two to three people that comprised an ALPA staffer/s and/or a research team member set-up the intervention in each of the ten intervention stores with the input of the Store Managers and the assistance of staff, and Store Boards in some stores. Store Managers and their staff maintained the strategy for 12–13 weeks with support from ALPA staff (i.e., the Nutritionist and Area Manager). Intervention set-up (which took less than half-a-day) was guided by a pre-determined list of modifications determined from an assessment of photographs taken of each store’s layout and product placement at baseline against strategy requirements. The beverage supplier provided pictorial planograms as requested by ALPA to aid compliance with refrigerated beverage layouts, and also allowed reimbursed write-off costs of expired artificially sweetened drinks as part of the pre-existing agreement with ALPA. Each Store Manager was provided with a reference guide developed by ALPA with the research team on which products were permitted to be promoted at intervention set-up [