The National Grocers Association Foundation (NGAF) held the inaugural assembly for the POS Nutrition Incentive Workgroup on June 30. The purpose of the group is to develop the core performance required for environment friendly and correct nutrition-incentive point-of-sale options. Nutrition incentives allow grocers to offer further meals {dollars}, for which retailers are reimbursed, to assist low-income consumers buy extra vegetables and fruit.
The formation of the POS Nutrition Incentive Workgroup follows an open letter to the grocery industry discussing the necessity to develop vitamin incentive POS options. NGAF labored with the Nutrition Incentive Hub to determine 20 volunteers from the vitamin incentive group who will meet weekly over the subsequent few months to succeed in consensus on the widespread performance required for POS methods to supply vitamin incentives.
The Nutrition Incentive Hub was created by the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program National Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation and Information Center (GusNIP NTAE Center), which helps such vitamin incentive tasks as SNAP incentives and produce prescription tasks. The GusNIP NTAE Center is led by the Omaha, Neb.-based Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, which, with Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Fair Food Network, assembled the hub, a coalition of evaluators, researchers, practitioners, and grocery and farmers’ market specialists from throughout the United States devoted to rising entry to reasonably priced wholesome meals for individuals in underserved areas.
To facilitate the brand new workgroup, NGAF has partnered with Peter Relich, an professional in digital funds. Relich has led varied requirements and consensus-building efforts over the course of his profession, and was a key member of the staff that transitioned the trade from paper meals stamps to Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT).
“This group is embarking on an thrilling alternative to streamline the event of POS expertise for SNAP incentives and depart an enduring legacy for implementing these packages in grocery shops,” famous Ted Mason, mission director for the NGAF Technical Assistance Center, which serves as a grocer useful resource for vitamin incentives. “NGAF appears ahead to sharing the developed performance and reporting doc created by this workgroup with POS builders sooner or later.”
NGAF is the 501(c)3 nonprofit arm of the Washington, D.C.-based National Grocers Association. The basis supplies impartial retailers with the instruments to create more practical recruiting packages, enhance retention efforts, and strengthen skilled management improvement alternatives for employers.
