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Audit food prices at a store near you

Tended Food Access

In personFood pricesMobile

About this task

What you'll do

Walk into any food retailer — supermarket, bodega, ethnic market, dollar store, farmers market — and capture shelf-tag prices for the 6 staple items. You don't buy anything.

  1. Find a store.
  2. For each of the 6 items, snap one photo of the item next to its shelf tag, then enter the price and size.
  3. If an item is missing, mark it out-of-stock.
  4. Submit. Hours credit when your audit verifies.

What you get out of it

Verified audits flow into a public food-access dataset showing where food is most affordable. The deliverable is free and public. Your time is credited against your SNAP work-requirement hours.

What you'll do

  • Pick a retailer
  • Capture price + photo for each of the 6 items (or mark out-of-stock)
  • Note whether the store appears to accept EBT