Urban grocery stores are facing operational challenges due to crime and are instituting crime mitigation strategies. These strategies may have unintended consequences that limit healthy food access among families with children and create threats to social dignity. This community-driven study aims to: 1) quantify modifiable community characteristics associated with crime at grocery stores; 2) examine perceptions of crime mitigation strategies among families with children and the impact of strategies on dignified healthy food access; and 3) investigate grocery store operators’ perceptions of crime and use of crime mitigation strategies and the impact on dignified healthy food access. In this multi-methods study, the team will first conduct a spatial analysis to identify associations between modifiable physical, social, and economic community characteristics and the prevalence of crime at grocery stores. Then, the team will conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with families and grocery store operators, in addition to completing shop-alongs with families. The study focuses on grocery stores in two urban areas: Baltimore City, MD, and Washington D.C. and includes 50 primary food shoppers who are from low-income families with children, and living near a grocery store experiencing crime, and 35 grocery store operators from stores experiencing crime. Primary outcomes include the incidence of crime at grocery stores (2020-2023) and the perceived impact of crime and crime mitigation strategies on dignified healthy food access. Measures include crime incidence at grocery stores, community physical, social characteristics, and perceptions of crime mitigation strategies.