Healthy Retail signage information for TSET Healthy Living Program grantees

TSET is pleased to offer a wide variety of Healthy Retail signage templates for stores to promote healthy food options. Templates can be accessed by anyone on the Shape Your Future website.

TSET Healthy Living Program grantees who are working with store owners and managers on the B5 outcome – improving the nutritional profile of foods offered in stores –may pay at least some of the printing cost for a partner store. Please keep the following guidance in mind:

  • Healthy retail signage is to be downloaded and printed as is, with no logo customization.
  • To qualify for paid signage, a store must have had: 1) an approved baseline FAMS assessment submitted through the monthly reporting system, 2) a follow-up meeting with a TSET HLP grantee to discuss the assessment results and possible sign usage, and 3) an agreed-upon plan on healthy retail changes that the store plans to make.
  • For the TSET Healthy Living Program to cover the cost, please submit a signage request with the store’s reported FAMS assessmentattached.
  • Upon approval, TSET will pay the initial cost of printing and laminating healthy retail signage. Stores are to pay for printing replacement signage.TSET will pay the cost to produce signage only, and not for poles, stands, frames or any supplies used for displaying the signs.
  • The amount expended for each business should be kept to a minimum while also covering the desired outcome needs. Thus, a recommended limit is $125 for convenience stores and $250 for larger grocery stores. But if you believe that a particular store needs a higher limit to achieve desired results, then discuss the signage plan with your health communication consultant and program officer.
  • If a TSET HLP grantee had previously worked with community partners to develop healthy retail signage for stores in their service area, those grantees may continue to use that signage.
  • For the remainder of FY18, healthy retail signage should be invoiced in the “other” category, so as not to adversely affect a grantee’s finalized health communication budget in this fiscal year.

For questions or comments about signage, please contact your health communication consultant. For budgeting and program matters, please consult your program officer.