Table 1.

Key themes and sub-themes.

Theme	Subtheme
Enablers to healthier food environments	Access to local and appealing healthy food options Promotion of healthier options in stores and on menus Importance of community and social conscience Consumer demand for healthy options and foods that meet dietary requirements
Barriers to healthier food environments	Consumer demand for less healthy options and preference for convenience Contractual agreements with manufacturers that promote unhealthy food supply Local Government Planning policy that does not inhibit the number of unhealthy food outlets Community mental health stressors Poor access to high quality healthy food Lack of knowledge and skills among retailers for understanding healthy food options
Rural health services are a leading broker of knowledge for healthy food environments	Utilising community perception that the health service is the ‘health leader’ in the town Health knowledge brokerage for helping retailers to decipher between dietary requirements and healthy options Advertisement/social media on health service channels to promote businesses who are making efforts to promote healthier food environments Health service endorsement of healthy food businesses Support from dietitians and health promotion officers
Characteristics of desirable healthy food environment interventions	Important to ensure the intervention doesn’t exclude other rural food retail businesses Incentives for businesses who are promoting healthier food environments Assistance with Social media/advertisement of healthy options available Health-service endorsed sticker/logo to identify healthier options Keep the implementation burden low for food outlets Link the outlets who are promoting healthy environments to tourism promotion, to increase business