WIC Shopping Experience

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USDA eases eligibility for retailers, foods to comply with WIC requirements as shortages hinder access – FoodNavigator-USA.com – 4/27/2020

“The US Department of Agriculture is making it easier for low-income participants in the Women, Infant and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program to fill their grocery carts despite lingering shortages of […]

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Food Purchasing Behaviors of WIC Participants: What Non-WIC Eligible Foods Items Are Being Purchased

Purpose: To describe items purchased during a shopping trip by families enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Design: Cross-sectional, quantitative, observational study. Setting: […]

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Qualitative Research on the Real-Time Decision Making of WIC Participants While Food Shopping: Use of Think-Aloud Methodology

Background People of lower socioeconomic status often experience disparities related to dietary intake as compared with People of higher socioeconomic status. Foods purchased influence the availability of foods in the […]

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Stakeholders Speak: Lessons Learned from EBT Implementation

WIC EBT implementation results in benefits to many stakeholders, but can be a long and stressful effort. In 2016, two WIC Agencies reflected on their projects by asking key stakeholders […]

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Can a better understanding of WIC customer experiences increase benefit redemption and help control program food costs?

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program benefits nutritionally vulnerable populations by providing them with vouchers to buy healthful foods. In the retail sphere, the […]

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Mapping a WIC Mother’s Journey: A Preliminary Analysis

To rapidly explore participation barriers in the Kentucky WIC program and edify preliminary participant journey narratives utilizing direct observation, an abbreviated participant observation experience, and focus group techniques. As part […]

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Use of a mixed-method approach to evaluate the implementation of retention promotion strategies in the New York State WIC program

The article details several factors responsible for early exit from the WIC program including changing SES status, lack of awareness concerning eligibility, hours of operation, location, job conflicts, and food […]

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Buying Wisely and Well: Managing WIC Food Costs While Improving the WIC Customer’s Shopping Experience

In July 2015, the BECR Center hosted a roundtable to discuss exploratory and innovative behavioral economics strategies that might be useful in helping the WIC Program manage food costs without […]

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Can a better understanding of WIC customer experiences increase benefit redemption and help control program food costs?

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program benefits nutritionally vulnerable populations by providing them with vouchers to buy healthful foods. In the retail sphere, the […]

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Proceedings: WIC Participant Retention Strategies: Pre-Conference Workshop

This resource includes presentations from the Pre-Conference Workshop on WIC Participant Retention Strategies. The workshop is summarized below: WIC caseload decline has been a concerning phenomenon for a number of […]

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