Table 1.
Number and percentage of non-food stores with food at checkouts, and type and health status classification of food checkout exposure by store category; survey of 205 non-food stores in a large indoor shopping mall, Gateshead, UK, February-March 2014
| Less healthy checkout food exposures* | Healthier checkout food exposures* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-chewing gum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stores with checkout food | Total (% of all food exposures) | Sweets | Chocolate | High-calorie drinks | Salty food | Snack bars | Biscuits | Cake | Total (% of all food exposures) | Chewing gum | Total | Low-calorie drinks/water | Bruschetta/ crackers | ||||||||||||||||||
| Store category | Stores in category | n | % | Checkouts | Checkout food exposures* | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Book/card/stationery | 6 | 5 | 83·3 | 34 | 611 | 515 | 84·3 | 160 | 31·1 | 294 | 57·1 | 20 | 3·9 | 22 | 4·3 | 0 | 19 | 3·7 | 0 | 96 | 15·7 | 82 | 85·4 | 14 | 14·6 | 14 | 14·6 | 0 | |||
| Customer services | 8 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Department stores (excluding food departments) | 7 | 5 | 71·4 | 199 | 2394 | 1769 | 73·9 | 418 | 23·6 | 1022 | 57·8 | 102 | 5·8 | 83 | 4·7 | 10 | 0·6 | 128 | 7·2 | 6 | 0·3 | 625 | 26·1 | 217 | 34·7 | 408 | 65·3 | 349 | 55·8 | 59 | 9·4 |
| Fashion | 61 | 8 | 13·1 | 231 | 1788 | 1616 | 90·4 | 1202 | 74·4 | 365 | 22·6 | 0 | 49 | 3·0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 9·6 | 172 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Hair/beauty | 27 | 4 | 14·8 | 47 | 514 | 402 | 78·2 | 94 | 23·4 | 252 | 62·7 | 42 | 10·4 | 0 | 14 | 3·5 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 21·8 | 98 | 87·5 | 14 | 12·5 | 14 | 12·5 | 0 | ||||
| Jewellery | 15 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Music/technology | 23 | 1 | 4·0 | 138 | 45 | 45 | 100·0 | 42 | 93·3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6·7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Opticians | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Shoes | 12 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Specialist† | 20 | 3 | 15·0 | 54 | 469 | 352 | 75·1 | 178 | 50·6 | 174 | 49·4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 24·9 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Sports/outdoors | 9 | 3 | 33·3 | 31 | 35 | 29 | 82·9 | 5 | 17·2 | 1 | 3·4 | 8 | 27·6 | 0 | 10 | 34·5 | 5 | 17·2 | 0 | 6 | 17·1 | 0 | 6 | 100 | 6 | 100 | 0 | ||||
| Toys/games/gadgets | 10 | 3 | 30·0 | 35 | 55 | 35 | 63·6 | 24 | 68·6 | 11 | 31·4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 36·4 | 0 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 0 | |||||||
| Travel agents | 4 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| All stores | 205 | 32 | 15·6 | 880 | 5911 | 4763 | 80·6 | 2123 | 44·6 | 2119 | 44·5 | 172 | 3·6 | 154 | 3·2 | 34 | 0·7 | 155 | 3·3 | 6 | 0·1 | 1148 | 19·4 | 686 | 59·8 | 462 | 40·2 | 403 | 35·1 | 59 | 5·1 |
*
Checkout food exposures=number of food lines available for each checkout (i.e. food lines displayed in a shared queuing aisle will be identified against more than one checkout and hence included multiple times).
†
‘Specialist’ was a miscellaneous store category which included, for example, ‘Pound’ stores (deep discount, general stores with a maximum item price of £1 (€1·21, $US 1·67)), art/print stores and wedding stores.